Word: transformative
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...Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan - whose capital is built where the Blue Nile meets the White - have stifled development along the upper river for decades. Dam and irrigation projects have been blocked. That, say regional leaders, has kept millions of people poor. "While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source of 85% of that water - are denied the possibility of using it to feed ourselves. And we are being forced to beg for food every year," Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told the bbc last year...
...reflex response to reform in France is often protest, just imagine tackling the issues that last fall provoked the worst rioting the country had seen since the upheavals of May 1968. But after nearly four decades of neglect, a major offensive is under way to transform the banlieues, the blighted suburban ghettos that ring many French cities. Leading the drive is the French Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing, Jean-Louis Borloo. "When you have all of society's difficulties, failings and hardships so concentrated in the same places, you need an audacious, comprehensive plan to address them...
...stop as within the realm of possibility. And Harvard’s properties border the campus of Boston University, giving the vision of Allston as a “hub” for interdisciplinary science an intercollegiate tinge. “I think this really has the potential to transform science at Harvard and to transform that area of the city,” says David Scadden, a co-director of the Stem Cell Institute, one of the first departments that will be located in Allston. “The area is currently industrial and doesn’t appear...
...globalization, specifically about how American culture is received abroad. The many cultural and value exchanges between the American females and their Afghan students are humorous and telling. Each hairdresser brings her own ideas of beauty and freedom to the classroom and tells her students to use their power to transform their country. Whether this is imposing superficial American materialism or empowering the Afghan women is not obvious, despite the film’s optimistic overtone...
...Cabot House’s library, a reading room in Pforzheimer House, or Hilles library. But both the Masters and HoCo members feel students need a reading room of their own. Leng said that “huge renovations” will take place in the art studio to transform it into what she and other HoCo members jokingly call “The Super TLR.” Two walls in the art studio will be knocked down to expand the space of the room and accommodate parties, while a side room that now contains a sink will serve...