Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Acharya (a title meaning "spiritual teacher") Prasad was an Indian student radical, and he reacted scornfully when a friend suggested that he come to a lecture on yoga. But he went, and much to his surprise, found a yogi talking about social interaction and the necessity to transform society. He learned that the man was in Ananda Marga, joined the organization himself, and soon began "whole-timer" training. But in 1962, at the request of the Guru of Ananda Marga, Shrii P. R. Sarkar, Prasad left whole-timer training, got married, and continued his education as an engineer...
...many light-years away from any such "cosmic society" that even accepting such goals as realistic is a major step. But through their meditation and service, local members of Ananda Marga are beginning to realize these goals in themselves and with others. They are taking the first steps to transform ideology into reality; and it is whether steps are taken, and not how long the road is, that matters...
...HONORS for making the breakthrough discovery went to a traditional bacteriologist. Taking purified DNA extracted from the chromosomes of dead pneumonia bacteria, Rockefeller Institute's Oswald T. Avery and his associates showed that it could transform other, normally harmless bacteria into virulent ones. The experiment indicated that it was DNA, and not protein, that carried the genetic message. So unexpected was that finding that even Avery was at first unwilling to accept it. Eight years later, Alfred Hershey and his assistant Martha Chase demonstrated that a virus' DNA could, by taking over a bacterium, also nullify the cell's genetic...
...could serve, for instance, as a booster seat for Junior, a wheel chock for the family car, a dead weight that could instantly sink a prosperous 68-year-old author into the East River. Just don't try to read the thing. It isn't easy to transform one of the great creative adventures of human history into a load of bull, but Stone has turned the trick. The only fun his book provides is the chance to watch how he does...
Like Fairyland. Designers such as Sherle Wagner of Manhattan and David Hicks of London stand ready to transform an ordinary bathroom into a soapy nirvana. "Today's bathroom," says Wagner, "is an escape area from these times of tension. It has become a spa at home." Most of Wagner's customers spend between $250 and $2,500 to renovate and redecorate their bathrooms, and the emphasis is on the higher end of that scale. "You can do a very very beautiful bathroom for $2,500," says Wagner. One customer has ordered a carved marble tub measuring...