Word: convert
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...team beat Union and Rensselaer at the Bright Hockey Center this weekend. Meintel’s outburst lifted him to second on the team’s scoring list with nine goals.Meanwhile, Harvard (9-12-1, 7-9-1 ECAC) was 6-for-12 on the power play after converting only two of 21 attempts in the previous four games.The weekend wins moved the Crimson into a tie for sixth in the league standings with five ECAC contests left to play.HARVARD 3, RPI 1The Crimson took only five man-advantage shots Saturday night, but three of them beat Engineers netminder...
...insult. Although Israel's Law of Return guarantees all Jews citizenship, Shoshana Miller, 43, a convert to Judaism, was told when she emigrated from the U.S. last year that her status as a Jewish national was in question. Reason: she had been converted by a Reform rather than an Orthodox rabbi. Interior Minister Yitzhak Peretz, himself an Orthodox leader, insisted that Miller's identity card be stamped with the word convert...
...Cech examined a one-cell organism to study strands of ribonucleic acid, or RNA. Specifically, he investigated RNA splicing, in which cells convert long RNA strands into shorter ones, removing unneeded stretches. It was previously thought that enzymes catalyzed the cutting and reassembling process, and that RNA itself played a more passive role...
...Ford, for its part, announced a deal with Microsoft to equip cars with a voice-activation system for gadgets like a cell phone, iPod or (in Microsoft's dreams) a Zune MP3 player. The system, called Sync, will supposedly convert text messages to audio too. Ford plans to make it available in 12 models over the coming year, though it could be a pricey option. Like most automakers, Ford is courting digitally savvy Gen Y shoppers and hopes the technology will appeal to them in entry-level cars like the 2008 Focus...
...teams played the first period in a scoreless stalemate, as the puck rarely left the neutral zone and the referees whistled only one penalty in the entire frame. Harvard could not convert its lone special teams opportunity, and the Tigers seized the bulk of possession coming out of the locker rooms for the second period...