Word: convert
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...hatched locally and executed clandestinely by factory supervisors. In the scramble for hard currency, the line between government-approved transactions and private enterprise becomes difficult to discern, raising questions about the fate of Russia's arsenal of nuclear and conventional weaponry. The U.S. has found it hard enough to convert obsolete sectors of its own defense establishment to the production of consumer goods. In Russia, where military factories are rarely reliable sources of goods that can be sold for hard currency, the task is far more difficult. With a working free market years away, there is little to sell...
...magical qualities of neuromelanin, a little-studied substance in the brain. Yet while neuromelanin is markedly different from the skin pigment, the melanists often fail to differentiate between the two and ignore the fact that all humans have similar amounts of neuromelanin. According to the melanists, neuromelanin can convert light and magnetic fields to sound and back again, and can capture sunlight and hold it in a "memory mode." Furthermore, they say, melanin granules are minicomputers that can respond to and analyze stimuli without interacting with the brain...
...water at the plants. Looking for ways of solving the problem, TIME asked its mills to substitute a different bleaching process that does not produce any detectable levels of dioxin. Most of the paper in this magazine is now produced that way. We have asked our other suppliers to convert to this safer bleaching method. They are in the process of doing so. Says Refkin: "These issues are extremely important to us. We care about our impact on the environment...
...course, after some efficient deprogramming my dad was able to convert me into an acceptable variety of Christian. In fact, as I write, I'm counting down the days until the end of lent, and the advent of desert (which I gave up). My early experience left though. I still wonder...isn't it great to be Jewish...
...look into a suspect's computer is remote surveillance. Parked just down the block, agents are able to pick up the electromagnetic waves that dance across a suspect's computer screen and convert them back into characters and words on a monitor. They can read everything the suspect is writing. While imaginative, this method is unpopular with law-enforcement authorities because they have to sit and watch the TV screen for weeks or review hours of videotape to see everything a suspect is doing...