Word: tailorization
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...second criterion, variation, is all too plain to see in this set of religion memes. We have innumerable belief systems tailor-made for the wide-ranging habitats of human minds. We can even point to major “speciation” events such as the Reformation where a major mutation in one strain of meme (Catholicism) leads to a flowering of variation and variety of different memetic strains (Protestantism in all its divergent glory...
...Committees in general have a far more successful history of organizing well-attended student activities than the Undergraduate Council. But it is also no secret that some House activities work better than others, and dialogue between House Committees would allow members to share ideas each individual Committee could then tailor to fit the needs and personality of the House it represents...
Ghassan (Gus) Karim's daughter was on the phone. Karim is a tailor who immigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1969. Thirty-two years later, when George W. Bush took the oath of office as President, he was wearing a suit made by his friend Gus. But after last week's bombings, Karim's daughter, who works for a Dallas financial-consulting company, called in tears. She had been taunted. "You were born in this country. Don't worry about it," Karim told her. A Muslim, a Rotarian and an American success story, he says, "This is my home...
...single protein and, applying forces only a trillionth as strong as those the earth exerts on an apple, pull it apart like molecular Velcro. Why bother? To study how proteins and nucleic acids fold into their complex structures. That's a matter of considerable interest to drug designers, who tailor molecules to monkey-wrench the proteins that make us sick...
...Anner Bylsma, he of Servais fame. Pantelic is modest, saying his work "is just plastic and stinking chemicals." But one aspect of what he does would have applied equally to Stradivari: "I have no one between me and the customer...It's like coming to the tailor: your cello is getting its own suit...