Word: transformed
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...medieval science of alchemy sought to transform base metals into gold. Aaron Patterson, the chef at Hambleton Hall, is an alchemist of tomatoes who turns the humble salad staple into something precious. He infuses the fruit into sorbets and foams, shaves it as thin as carpaccio or, in his signature dish, essence of tomatoes with Scottish langoustines, distills it to a clear soup of startlingly intense and glorious flavor...
...some years now, BGLTSA has been tilting at windmills to transform Harvard’s “gendered” bathrooms into “gender-neutral spaces.” The argument for the change is that those—and here’s another term to add to our overpopulated lexicon—“identifying” as transgendered feel alienated from gender-specific bathrooms, that they cannot be classified by those silhouetted stick figures, and so require a totalizing change to make them feel comfortable...
...conservative publication is also feeling outside pressure to use discretion. HIS President Khalid M. Yasin ’07, who arranged the meeting with Harvard deans about ethics in Harvard journalism, is quick to remind that negative verbal jabs against Muslims can easily transform into physical violence. After 9/11, an Islamic graduate student at Harvard Divinity School was physically abused at the Harvard T stop because she was wearing hijab, The Crimson reported...
Mugane believes that “there is no way you can go and transform a place if you can’t speak to the people.” He encourages students to focus their attention on learning the languages that will help them foster a “dialogue” with Africa, either by eventually studying abroad in Africa or by simply better-appreciating African culture...
...smarts in SmartWrap come from flat circuitry called OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes), which are tattooed onto the plastic by an ink-jet printer and can function either as a light source or a computer display. When used on an exterior wall, OLEDs could transform the look of your house in seconds. "You could have a blue house one day and a green house the next day," says Timberlake. "You could have a camouflage pattern or political signage." Insulation is provided by gel-filled pockets between two layers of SmartWrap; power can be supplied by solar cells and stored...