Word: adaptation
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...they leaped from branch to branch, or if they climbed down trees, moved on the ground and climbed back up again. (The fact that the Sumatran tiger - before it became critically endangered - was a serious threat to the orangutan probably helped encourage tree travel.) Climbing helps the orangutan adapt neatly to its arboreal environment...
Getting Students Ready to Work The 1,200 community colleges in the U.S. are especially suited to helping students adapt to a changing labor market. While four-year universities have the financial resources to lure top professors and students, they are by nature slow-moving. Community colleges, on the other hand, are smaller and able to tack quickly in changing winds. They often partner with local businesses and can gin up continuing-education courses midsemester in response to industry needs, getting students in and out and ready to work - fast...
...Crimson will be counting on Leblanc and the rest of the freshman class to make strong contributions to the team this year. Harvard has a talented senior class, and Leblanc will need to adapt quickly for the team to make a run at the ECAC title...
...plan to close off Europe to managers or funds outside the E.U. that aren't subjected to equivalent regulation - a provision that would kick in three years after the rest of the legislation, giving jurisdictions and managers time to adapt - promises the most significant change. The E.U.'s approach is understandable. If you want to protect European investors, it's no good regulating domestic fund managers if those selling to investors from outside the region aren't obliged to respect similar rules. But while U.S. efforts are underway to bolster the policing of hedge funds - and the meaning of equivalent...
...foundational work in the field and who holds the aptly named Smiley chair in psychology at the University of Illinois. As for paraplegics, "there is a big drop for those who became 100% disabled, meaning they can no longer do any work." In general, Diener noted, people do adapt to a major life change but not completely. "We have to be careful when we cite these studies," warned the genial researcher, who wore a smiley face T-shirt under his sport coat...