Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group would be hard-pressed to hold back the crush of tourism. During the peak summer months, 7,000 visitors a day transform Yosemite Valley into an urbanized village of noisy bumper-to-bumper traffic and bicycle jams. To many nature lovers, the land that pioneering preservationist John Muir extolled for its "spiritual glow" and "sublime mountain beauty" has already been irreversibly damaged...
Some peace groups are beginning to battle local radio and TV stations that refuse to sell air time for antiwar spots. In San Francisco a computer networking system is trying to link up protesters around the country. In Atlanta civil rights groups are working hard to transform Jan. 15 -- Martin Luther King's birthday -- into a Peace with Justice...
...extra copies are a bad omen. Patients that have them suffer three times the rate of cancer recurrence of other patients, says UCLA oncologist Dr. $ Dennis Slamon. Such patients, he says, should "absolutely" get further treatment. But one genetic abnormality is not enough to transform healthy, law-abiding breast cells into anarchic tumors. "The genes responsible for this disease are like pieces of a patchwork quilt," says geneticist Mary- Claire King of the University of California, Berkeley. The patchwork pattern may vary from one woman to the next, but each case probably involves five or six separate mutations occurring over...
They fulfill a Zionist dream, but how will they transform the nation? An exclusive look at the life and crimes of a Palestinian terrorist. War and agony in Somalia...
...joint venture of Gulf Oil Corp. and British Petroleum. And now, to no one's surprise, it is Khalifa who is at the center of his country's most ambitious effort: the attempt to reinvent Kuwait. If implemented in its entirety, the intricate and politically tricky plan could transform the demography, character and economy of what everyone involved is calling New Kuwait...