Word: transformational
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...impregnates the peasant woman. Her husband returns from a trip, discovers her infidelity and slits open her belly, releasing hundreds of tiny snakes, which he tries to kill. But one slithers to safety. It grows into snake-girl Soraya, played by Pich Chanboramey. With a magic ring she can transform her Medusa-like locks into normal hair, but not forever. When Soraya loses her virginity, she is fated to change into a serpent forever. And then she falls in love...
Life-extending drugs are out there. Wealthy countries use multidrug-cocktail therapies that transform AIDS from certain killer to chronic illness and reduce its spread by making the infected less contagious. The people you just read about could stop dying if they too had access to the drugs...
...ministers and mandarins," in her own phrase?Holdsworth casts her net beyond the Peak and allows her subjects to tell how radically expatriate Hong Kong changed, especially in the last 20 years of British rule. That was when a new class of expat arrived?lawyers, bankers, restaurateurs?who helped transform a far-flung colony into a cosmopolitan business center...
...Online publishing and electronic textbooks will most likely transform the industry. The Web gives content producers the tools to align their materials with state standards and assessments, and smaller, more research-based publishers should face fewer barriers to entry. But quality content will always be expensive to produce, and states will still have to decide what to buy. Says Pearson's Jovanovich: "Technology is just an enabler. It's what we do with it that will matter...
...troubled start-up Legend Airlines: "The biggest deterrent to new airport planning is the resistance and political clout of major carriers. Dominant airlines must stop fighting new airport development if the entire system is going to improve." The FAA is on the right track in attempting to transform nearly two dozen former military airfields like El Toro in California and Homestead AFB in Florida into commercial airports, but the process needs a jump-start...