Word: transformer
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...DISCOVERY OF LIFE BEYOND EARTH WOULD TRANSFORM not only our science but also our religions, our belief systems and our entire world view. For in a sense, the search for extraterrestrial life is really a search for ourselves--who we are and what our place is in the grand sweep of the cosmos...
...provoke him," insists Dan Chaid, 33, whose eight years on the staff of Team Foxcatcher ended last fall when Du Pont threatened him with a submachine gun. "John got in one of his moods." Those moods, according to Chaid, were ruled by alcohol and drugs--which could transform a man described by one neighbor as "kind, generous and mild-mannered," who collected seashells, into someone completely different...
LUMBINI, NEPAL: Beneath the Maya Devi temple to Buddha's mother in this southwestern Nepal town lies a recently uncovered complex of rooms that may transform this remote hamlet into a sort of mecca for the world's 340 million Bhuddists. After carefully studying the chambers discovered 9 months ago, a multinational team of archaeologists has announced that the rooms prove that ancient inscriptions claiming the site is Buddha's birthplace are true. The inscriptions were found on a pillar at the ancient Maya Devi temple erected by Ashoka, an Indian king who converted to Buddhism and spread the religion...
...have more to offer than poignancy and politics, but not from the tales themselves. Rather the anthology serves as a description of memory and how memory is adapted, treated and socialized. Like Levi-Strauss recording folklore, Masters was preserving in writing an oral history that would have continued to transform itself over the years beyond recognition of its original form or died out altogether had he not interceded. How residents of Spoon River handled memory is the most trenchant aspect of the Nora Theater's current production...
...lobbying hard for bills proposed by Republican Representative Cass Ballenger of North Carolina and New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg that would curb OSHA's power to issue citations and fines for infractions of hundreds of rules and regulations. The sweeping change would transform the agency from a watchdog on safety matters to a toothless "adviser" to industry. Ballenger's measure has picked up 155 co-sponsors and, with some tinkering, could pass the House this spring. As it happens, Ballenger got $10,000 from UPS for his 1994 election race. Gregg, who contends that "OSHA has developed a well...