Word: transformed
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...transform the lives of inner-city youth, the founder of an after-school art workshop told a crowd of more than 100 at the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...presidential level, however, congressional Democrats never enthusiastically rallied behind his values agenda. They supported him on such issues as the ban on tobacco advertising aimed at our children, placing V chips in televisions to help parents control what children watch, and a TV-rating system. But they failed to transform them into the values-charged issues that our polling showed appealed to key swing voters...
...Dole used to be a competent moderate. How did the G.O.P. transform him into a tax-cutting, budget-busting snake-oil salesman?" JAMES E. FREDETTE San Marcos, California...
...Seattle is the boom town of the nineties, and it can't boom without throwing off some flak. Almost every day, it seems, battalions of tractors and cranes transform messy lots into restaurants and theaters, creating endless opportunities for just about any kind of business as the population of the city keeps growing and growing. As a result, Seattle sports rough edges, and the Emerald City has become a fascinating study in contrast--a place where Kurt Cobain and the Seattle Symphony share an audience and recent college graduates always find a job, despite the fact that Washington...
...back after years of neglect. The colonization of Mars, for example--a quintessential hard sci-fi subject--inspired Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars (Bantam). The third volume in his acclaimed Mars trilogy, it's a painstakingly plotted epic that follows a group of pioneers across centuries as they transform the Red Planet into an ecologically friendly refuge. "We're acting as the conscience and subconscious of the scientific world," says Greg Bear, author of 16 novels, most of them hard sci-fi. "We dream what scientists would like to achieve...