People aren't supposed to be there.

It is the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that are better equipped to deal with aid issues.

Penguins' eyes are adapted for underwater vision.

Within the jaw, cats have teeth adapted for killing prey and tearing meat.

In other words, both the language and the agenda that originally belonged to extreme right parties have been appropriated by the political mainstream.

Many of these techniques were developed in connection with the advertising and marketing of commercial products and services, and then adapted to politics.

Other MOOCs, like an upcoming one on cellular metrics offered by France s Institut Mines Télécom, are more tailored to niche audiences.

Back then, contacts with the old USSR and its satellites were believed to promote major domestic change. But autocratic regimes, we learned through the disappointments of detente, are unusually well equipped to stifle yearnings for freedom among their populace.

But autocratic regimes, we learned through the disappointments of detente, are unusually well equipped to stifle yearnings for freedom among their populace.

The imperial statues are toppled, cities and streets renamed, the vestiges of foreign rule either abandoned or adapted.

Valls argues that Roma have no capacity to integrate into France.

And pastoralists are more market savvy than many believe the Horn of Africa s pastoral livestock and meat trade is estimated to be worth 1 billion.

Either way, the recommendations would have the advantage of being better adapted to local needs especially if the councils are accountable to national parliaments.

While the rich are better able to bear the risks of currency and interest rate fluctuations, it is the poor who bear the brunt of this volatility.

One way to think of it is that we're highly optimized for risk decisions that are endemic to living in small family groups in the East African highlands in 100,000 B.C.

Microbes differ from computer viruses because they not only spread but evolve, and do so at a faster pace than their hosts. Microbes are in fact well designed to exploit this difference to their advantage in the war that occasionally erupts between them and other species a war we see as disease and death.

Microbes are in fact well designed to exploit this difference to their advantage in the war that occasionally erupts between them and other species a war we see as disease and death.

Bombings in London and Turkey have brought to the fore the old ideas that authoritarian regimes are better equipped than democracies to combat terrorism, and that such attacks are the price we pay for liberty.

Some argue that our current global institutions are sufficiently open and adaptable for China to find it in its own interests to become what Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, once called a responsible stakeholder.

In fact, creditors arguably are more responsible typically, they are sophisticated financial institutions, whereas borrowers frequently are far less attuned to market vicissitudes and the risks associated with different contractual arrangements.

The problem is that a reduction in those extremes to which we are already well adapted provides only modest benefits, whereas the new extremes to which we are not adapted can be devastating, as recent events in Pakistan show.

When markets create an international consensus on the future price of homes in cities around the world, we will be better able to manage the risks facing these cities, thereby stabilizing their economies and our own lives.