Word: converting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking to ordinary people in ordinary human terms, about "spirituality without faith." As his longtime friend the composer Philip Glass says, "He talks about compassion, he talks about right living. And it's very powerful and persuasive to people because it's clear he's not there to convert them...
...before," including asking a group of Protestants to pray for his country. National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER explained it this way: Washington "wants the Pope's visit to have a lasting effect." But no formal review of Cuba policy is under way, and no one expects John Paul to convert the communist graybeard to democracy and capitalism...
Half a world away, on the Indonesian island of Java, hundreds of rural families have mounted small, silvery panels on poles near their homes. Made of silicon semiconductor chips similar to the microprocessors found in computers, the solar cells convert the energy of sunshine into electricity. These almost magical devices make it possible for people living a day's walk from the nearest power lines to turn on light bulbs, radios and TV sets for the first time...
...work, other whites have shown up at the South Carolina Historical Society, seeking to make similar connections. Filmmaker Macky Alston, who sought Ball's advice, won the Sundance Freedom of Expression award this year for Family Name, a documentary of his search for descendants of Alston slaves. Another Ball convert is Allen Hutcheson, 24, a descendant of the man believed to be the model for Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. "We have to find these people," he says of his family's former slaves. "You have to cut the wound open to get the poison out," agrees Ball...
...calculate individual daily caloric needs, divide body weight by 2.2 to convert pounds to kilograms, multiply by a gender factor (1 for males, .9 for females) and multiply...