Word: convert
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...also became a convert to color television after filming 119 episodes in black and white. One of the dishes on her first color episode was a strawberry tart and, when they saw the show air, she and her husband “were so impressed we went out and bought a color...
Much of the U.S.'s humanitarian effort in Afghanistan is simply adding fuel to anti-American fires [THE STRATEGY, Oct. 15]. Dropping tons of food that the Afghans neither like nor understand (peanut butter, for example) merely perpetuates the image that Americans are trying to convert Afghans to our way of life--or that we are so arrogant we really don't care what they want. We need to discover what food Afghans want and need and then distribute that rather than the stuff we're giving them now. This would do much to advance our humanitarian image. DUNCAN WIMPRESS...
McDonald's hopes to accept RFID wands nationwide as early as next year. Canteen has decided to convert all its vending machines after watching sales shoot up more than 40% in its North Carolina test. IBM technology guru Michael Karasick notes that while "the hype level for m-commerce has gone way down," the the technology still promises to change retailing "profoundly...
...Fearful for their believers' souls and welfare, leaders of China's roughly 60 million Christians have mobilized. Last year a man claiming to be Lightning's coordinator for north China met secretly with a senior aide to a Catholic bishop in Hebei province to try to convert the Catholic leadership there. He failed, and the bishopric has warned clergies to remain vigilant against Lightning. In Henan, the main church in Dengfeng county called a meeting of 70 lay leaders for a two-day training session on Lightning's "heresies"?but since then five of the leaders have joined the sect...
...which has damaged whatever credibility America might have had among the ordinary Afghans it hopes to convert. The Taliban, like the Iraqis and Serbs before them, have exaggerated civilian casualties while helping create more of them by positioning artillery near mosques and schools--erecting human shields and daring the U.S. to hit them. Daud Khan, 28, a refugee coming out of Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold, told TIME that the regime's forces have moved into residential quarters of the city, occupied houses and put antiaircraft guns on the roofs. Another 45 camouflaged truckloads of weapons have been moved into...