Word: convert
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...pomegranates, clothing and shoes. Three trucks took the wounded away. One of the 86 told Alliance fighters he was an American. The 20-year-old, who had been wounded in the leg, said he was from Washington. He would not give his name but said he was a convert to Islam who had come to Afghanistan--after a spell at a madrasah in Pakistan--to help the Taliban build a perfect Islamic government...
Renovations on the Square location will begin in early January and are expected to be completed by the end of the month. The company also plans to convert the last two Brew Moons in the Boston area to Rock Bottom Restaurants...
Kelly says he has perfected the slug-identification-and-retrieval system but estimates that it will be several years before the slugbot is ready for market. Biggest hurdle: getting the robot to convert those captured mollusks into usable energy. While the concept of microbial fuel cells has worked in laboratory tests, applying it to slugs turns out to be a sticky proposition...
...Beers is said to be considering using famous athletes and entertainers in ads for America. That's fine, but we know that a goodly percentage of the people we're looking to convert don't have televisions. And may not even know who Michael Jordan is. And if what she does is just a version of the "I Love NY" campaign writ large, it's certainly bound to fail. She is said to be behind the use of former ambassador Christopher Ross, who is fluent in Arabic, on al Jazeera TV, and that's certainly a good thing...
Student group status will allow the club to continue to use the 12 Holyoke St. building even after renovations convert the building into a state-of-the-art theater and space for student groups...