Word: adaptive
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...general worldwide phenomenon in the age of globalization. States remain the main actors on the international stage, but their ability to control the movement of everything from capital and commodities to guns, diseases and people is being diminished. And dealing with such a world requires that the U.S. adapt its own government structures and make them more interdisciplinary than at present...
Jhumpa Lahiri won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for this moving collection of stories about Indian-Americans and the challenges of immigration. Some of the tales hit close to home, like "Third and Final Continent," about an Indian man who struggles to adapt to life in Cambridge and eventually sends a son to Harvard...
...Attorney General Janet Reno said that the justice system must adapt to the potential benefits and dangers of DNA evidence in a speech to a packed ARCO Forum last night...
...conference will address "the impact of advances in our understanding of DNA technology...and how the criminal justice system needs to adapt," said...
...remote control for the Internet": go to RedFilter's website, enter your age, pick the subjects you're interested in, and RedFilter spits back a series of sites custom-picked for your tastes. RedFilter's survival secret: it sells its filter technology to other websites so they can adapt it for their own users. "Our focus was always on profitability," says O'Shea...