Word: transformation
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...Coming from an intellectual family, I am excited about ideas, but often don't respect enough what it takes to transform an idea to reality," Ping confessed. "Everything is just so much more complicated than you think in school. [It's] a good reality check. To do well on this job requires a different set of intelligence from performing well in school: less abstract intelligence, but more people skill, common sense, just knowing how to get things done...
Israel's planned withdrawal is a pivotal event for Lebanon. Lebanese see it as a chance to rebuild their nation. The streets and cafes of Beirut are filled with ambitious, entrepreneurial Arabs from around the region, eager to transform the country. Visions abound: some see Lebanon as a kind of Singapore of the Middle East, a technology and business center for the entire region. Others dream of a more cosmopolitan nation that recalls Lebanon's days as one of the Mediterranean's most opulent jewels...
...interest in the number two slot. Even so, candidates have a history of changing their mind when confronted with a genuine ticket offer. Bush ought to spare no effort to try to convince Powell to join him. If Powell can be persuaded to enter the campaign, he would transform an otherwise unremarkable ticket into a formidable adversary for Gore...
...start. Invaders are not the only ones who get bogged down in Russia's vast expanses. So do reformers. They are defeated by geography and by the millions of apparatchiks who are masters at blocking, diverting, distorting, delaying and eventually destroying policies they do not like. Reforms aim to transform Russia, notes the country's greatest historian, Vasili Klyuchevsky, but they end up being transformed by Russia. Putin can cut Berezovsky down to size. He can jail oligarchs, scare governors and level Chechen villages. But actually transforming Russia will take more than just political will and cunning. It will also...
Following in Darwin's wake won't transform every child into a genius, but it may arouse a lifelong passion to understand the natural world. And the 10-day Quito and Galapagos Islands Cruise, with lecturers from WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, WELLESLEY COLLEGE and MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL, is designed to awaken the scientist that lurks in everyone. The journey (cost: $3,150 to $5,950; call 800-221-1944 for more information) begins July 31 with three days in Quito, where travelers eat lunch in a restaurant built on the edge of a volcanic crater, straddle the equator at the Middle...