Word: adaptivity
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...Project ADAPT is Making Improvements
Careful readers of "Faculty Blasts $112M Computer Systems" on Project ADAPT (News, March 21) should be skeptical about The Crimson's reporting...
What's certainly missing is the service's piece de resistance, the bullet train modeled on France's futuristic TGV (train a grande vitesse). Now scheduled to launch in July, the Amtrak bullet has been delayed as builders attempt to adapt European tilting technology to America's rough freight tracks. Meanwhile, Amtrak is introducing other improvements to its Northeastern service under the Acela logo--primarily a reduction of the Boston-New York trip from five hours to just under four, using newly electrified tracks. The bullet train, a.k.a. the Acela Express, will reach speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., cutting...
...package in his hands. He tossed the package into a mass grave. I asked him what he had thrown there. He said, 'My son, who died.' Then he went on chatting with his friend." From scenes like that, Salgado learned to worry about one of the greatest human capabilities, adaptation. "We can adapt ourselves to any situation," he laments, "and believe that this is a normal life...
...that a lack of communication can cause. Low morale and inter-administration enmities can be as much of a barrier to productivity as poor software. The efforts to meet with the faculties, especially the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, should be accelerated, especially before the next stage of Project ADAPT begins. The system should not be given responsibility for handling human resources information without a general consensus among the faculties that they are comfortable with the project and are ready to use the new software. A new commitment on the part of the central administration to hearing and addressing...