Word: morphing
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...history of the most successful rock-and-roll bands, there comes a point when critical and popular recognition meet head on, and the winding path of ascension begins. As they rise, that path begins to branch out, and some evolve into underground sensations while others morph into undisputed superstars. The trick that Wilco has pulled off over the past few years has been to keep one foot in the grimy dirt and the other on the gold-paved road. Since 1994, the band has been combining their Nashville roots, laden with lap steels and banjos, with a more experimental exploration...
...more than 1 million other Americans with Type 1 diabetes, the most debilitating form of the disease, it may lie in a revolutionary new field of research based on manipulating human embryonic stem cells. These building blocks of life, when isolated in a microscopic cluster of cells, can morph into any kind of tissue. (So-called adult stem cells, which can be harvested without sacrificing embryos, can turn into only a few tissue types.) One day, scientists hope, the entire genetic makeup of a patient like Zucker could be transferred into a cloned human egg that can produce the insulin...
...drawn over 4,000 Post-It notes in Silvia V?lez's Not In My Name, 2004. Above all, the show attempts to free up the frozen image, capturing the shift in contemporary art from photography to video and back again. Exhibit A is Patricia Piccinini, mistress of the morph. For her wondrous meditations on genetic engineering, it's only natural that she has spawned a mutant medium. Here Piccinini is represented by her Venice Biennale video, Plasmid Region, 2003, which shows a magnified plasmid cell slowly reproducing. How to love her offspring, including her often photographed "siren mole...
Apart from draining joy from young lives, untreated childhood anxiety tends to morph into adolescent depression, a strong risk factor for suicide. Living with fear wears down the will to live, and constantly avoiding unpleasant things - while it offers short-term relief - eventually makes the sufferer feel isolated and useless. Katherine, 18, of Brisbane, recalls a childhood spent in her "own little world," not feeling close to either parent, hung up on doing everything perfectly and racked by the fear of getting into trouble. By her final year of high school, she was so filled with despair that she resolved...
...already the most famous woman architect who has just one completed project to her name: the new Manhattan showroom of the Swiss furniture company Vitra, which has become a showcase for Roy too. It's a suavely configured space where display platforms ribbon around corners or morph into mahogany staircases that have embedded steel treads...