Word: transformer
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...remained in Dresden. His stepson Pavel was not murdered by nihilists or anyone else. A pest and a spendthrift, he tormented the author all his life, and a standard scene from biographies has Pavel being forcibly kept from Dostoyevsky's deathbed. Nechaev did exist, and Dostoyevsky did transform him into a character in Demons, but the student his gang murdered in a celebrated crime was one Ivan Ivanov. Coetzee could hardly help knowing this, but not a word of preface or footnote explains that historical truth has been meddled with...
...know you can't really transform every particle into energy," Riess said. "You could never be able to break a person apart and put them together again because you would lose information...
...called Lauren--son of fashion maven Ralph Lauren--to investigate how he was going to transform the undergraduate journal he created at his alma mater, Duke University, into a national glossy. Swing first attracted my attention at the June Presidential Gala held at the New York Sheraton Hotel. At the Democratic fund-raiser, 20-something women were fawning over a certain not-so-tall guy in a loose-fitting navy pinstripe suit. He was David, they said, and he was starting a magazine for Generation X--American 20-somethings whom he (and the executives marketing Swing) knew to have tremendous...
...Trounson's approach works as well as he says, it could transform the economics of the test-tube baby business. Standard IVF can cost more than $100,000, but Trounson says he can slash that figure 80% by eliminating drugs, curtailing testing and reducing doctors' fees...
Approval of ballot Questions 6 and 7 will transform Massachusetts from a state with an arcane and regressive system of taxation into a state that taxes fairly and progressively...