Silvia Lindtner, an ethnographer at University of California, Irvine and Shanghai's Fudan University, notes that shanzhai producers have long adapted mobile phones to the needs of people in the developing world.
Business travelers and other frequent fliers, who had long adapted stoically to whatever new security hurdles were thrown in their paths, were no longer reacting with equanimity.
Bruce Merrill and Cully Long adapted the script from the book of the same title by Peter Ackerman, who was inspired by an actual Manhattan phone booth at 100th Street and West End Avenue.
Dogs, she explains, are domesticated animals, and to treat them as though they were still in a pack rather than long adapted to a subservient role in a human family is as absurd as treating a child as though it were "really" still a primate living in a tree.
In reality, France is divided: between those in the private sector who have long adapted to the market in their working lives, and those in the public sector who may accept globalisation as consumers in their free time but not while toiling at their desks.But what happens to former public-sector workers whose enterprises have been privatised?
It is two to three millimeters long, adapted to live in soil, possesses large mandibles, and has no eyes.
But it is tasty to a species long adapted to crave sugar, salt, and fat.
Cuba's electronic musicians have long adapted to alternative styles of creating music, straddling a world between modern computer-driven compositions and their country's own traditional sounds.
Venues have long adapted to what's happening around them, for as long as there are gays in 21st century London, there will be bars, clubs and other venues to be found.
Long adapted to isolation and affected by infections linked to climate and culture, they are now also vulnerable to emerging plagues (8 ).
