With this in mind, adaptation to the adverse impacts of climate change will be critical.

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Steven Spielberg had planned to make the film adaptation of the novel Robopocalypse with Anne Hathaway this summer, with a date already set for April 24, 2014.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Apart from the fact that it tells you nothing about sex and very little about the city in which it takes place, this adaptation of the successful TV series is titled with accuracy and pith.

NEWYORKER: Sex and the City

Try this thought experiment: Your smarty-pants car is fitted with something called intelligent speed adaptation.

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This year's London Film Festival will close with the European premiere of new Charles Dickens adaptation Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell.

BBC: Great Expectations to close London Film Festival

Adaptation to climate change and its mitigation is one key objective of this biosphere reserve, with many research and activities underway.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Besides the revival and film of "The Last Five Years, " he's got two new musicals debuting this year: "Honeymoon in Vegas, " an adaptation of the 1992 film written with Andrew Bergman that will premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, and "The Bridges of Madison County, " a musical he wrote with Marsha Norman that debuts at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts this summer.

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