Word: morphing
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...state level (notably in California, which passed a $3 billion stem-cell bond measure), political pressure at the national level kept such research on the back burner. Meanwhile, there were several advances in the effort to get adult stem cells to work like embryonic stem cells (which can morph into any type of cell in the body). One small study involved heart patients undergoing bypass surgery. In half the patients, stem cells harvested from bone marrow in their hipbones were injected into their damaged heart tissue. The results were encouraging, but researchers don't know whether the stem cells transformed...
...illustrator of superhero the Flash, nemesis of such bad guys as the Thinker and the Shade; in Boca Raton, Fla. Lampert and writer Gardner Fox first introduced the "fastest man alive" in 1940 as the Golden Age of comic books was just unfolding. Their Flash--a scientist who could morph into a red-and-blue--clad speedster with a winged helmet--was an immediate hit. But Lampert, who preferred drawing gags for Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, left after a few issues, later founding an award-winning ad agency...
...MART'S IMAGE SEEMED TO MORPH FROM CHARMING SOUTHERN DISCOUNT STORE TO A RETAIL BULLY FULL OF DEAD-END JOBS. WHY DID THAT HAPPEN...
Section personalities are by no means mutually exclusive, nor are they stages in a linear process. You can ingratiate yourself to the TF while at the same time being arrogant and self-promoting. Although The Freshman will often morph into an Offended or a Serial Repeater, he or she is equally likely to become an Antagonist who criticizes your interpretations of art in The Portrait. Which started forty minutes ago. I have to go. But see you in section...
...their disappointment. Viral marketing could easily morph into a customer-complaint channel. Advertisers who go viral, Bogusky concedes, "will just have to be brave enough to realize that they can't have it all under their control anymore. Those days are over." --By Tim Padgett