Word: convert
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This process was done before Harvard's October announcement promising to convert the 400 to 500 casual workers to full-time status without any sort of application process...
Harvard got its next chance after Brown went three-and-out. A short punt and a Brown penalty gave the Crimson the ball at midfield. The Crimson then managed to convert twice in a row on third down, as freshman flanker Kyle Cremarosa made a clutch catch in the middle for 18 yards and Patterson got open on a slant for 11 yards...
Infuriatingly, Diwali is also the occasion on which the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board has chosen to begin a campaign to convert Hindus and make them aware of the "darkness in their hearts that no lamp can dispel." I take serious offense to the idea that the Baptists are using one of the holiest times of the year for Hindus to begin a campaign of proselytization...
Scientists are also focusing on the differences between two types of fat cells, known as brown and white. The former, active in young mammals (including humans), convert fat into heat rather than storing it. That's crucial in newborns, whose temperature-regulation systems aren't fully formed. As we age, the brown cells become inactive and the white, which convert dietary fat to body fat, take over. Several research teams have found that by reactivating the brown cells in an adult animal with medication, they can burn off fat dramatically. Now the doctors are looking for a genetic switch that...
Biotechnology is giving us additional tools to cope with waste--and turn it to our advantage. We now have microbes that can take toxic substances in contaminated soil or sludge--including organic solvents and industrial oils--and convert them into harmless by-products. Soon we may be using genetic engineering to create what Reid Lifset, editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, calls "designer waste streams." Consider all that stalk, or stover, that every corn plant grows along with its kernels. Scientists at Monsanto and Heartland Fiber are working toward engineering corn plants with the kind of fiber content that...