Word: transformers
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...that this is the way the Yard was designed and the way that Harvard and the world on the whole operates best: open to new ideas, people, places, and new ways of seeing the same old thing. The spaces we pass through in our caps and gowns have been transformed, but not for good. Only Harvard students can really transform them...
...come to look at everyone differently, thanks to the scanner. The bus drivers, firemen, and police officers I spot during my daily routine transform into the radio personalities on my favorite show. The more I listen, the more I learn about their characters, which is what I love about reporting. I get access to an endless stream of raw information that I can turn into a story. Neither job nor hobby, scanning is my addiction. Whenever I’m out and about I feel the painful sting of withdrawal from my scanner. At the first sound of a siren...
...download songs and burn customized discs. So far, 45 stores in Seattle and Austin, Texas, have the units, and Starbucks plans to announce more by year's end. "[Music] is a big component of our overall strategy," says Starbucks Entertainment president Ken Lombard, adding that coffee-house sales will "transform how music is discovered and delivered...
Enzymes that help transform cornstarch into ethanol are fairly run-of-the-mill in biotech terms. The same can't be said of those needed to brew bioethanol from indigestible plant fibers. Making enzymes efficient and cheap enough for that has long been an obstacle to a viable bioethanol industry. Canada's Iogen is the only biotech firm to have shipped a batch of commercial bioethanol (see main story). But Novozymes is making waves as well. It announced in March that with $17 million in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, it had reduced the cost of enzymes for making...
...last, the current vision for the site as a memorial has been selected, after much heated debate in New York. Now, to transform that idea into reality requires vast technical knowledge and the collaboration of various experts in architecture...