Word: transformers
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...Warmerdam has established herself as a master of repetition. Yet instead of documenting existing patterns of the visual world, she creates repetition from things that don't repeat, using film loops to transform isolated events into patterns of great expression and beauty...
...Sheriff Stone and his colleagues, though, appear to be mostly between a rock and a hard place. Law enforcement work has always been a balancing act between the rights of individuals and the good of the public. And when that "public" can transform overnight from a community of quiet suburbanites and small weekly papers into a legion of lawyers and an international press corps, that balancing act becomes considerably more complex...
...lives with them, the structure of the workforce will continue to change in that direction. Then we will be able to consider the more challenging question of how we extend that flexibility to low- and middle-income parents and single parents who are conforming to set schedules. To transform policies and create lasting change, we all need to include the value of children within our expectations before accepting any job. How will we be able to build a responsive, creative, caring society if we don't make staying at home with our children a valued and viable possibility...
...recent times, however, the cheetah has not been able to outrun its own vulnerability. Its lifestyle requires large expanses of land where prey is abundant. As farmers and ranchers began to transform the African landscape, the cheetah population, which reproduces slowly under the best of conditions, began to suffer. Forever on the move in search of food, the cat became a frequent target of trophy hunters and farmers who didn't want cheetahs killing their cattle. A quarter-century ago, about 30,000 cheetahs roamed in 44 African countries. Today the figure is fewer than 15,000 in 26 countries...
...short, stands for Oprah--heartfelt, improving and mysteriously able to transform the commercial exploitation of bathos into a unique blend of self-help spirituality, pop feminism and Benjamin Franklin optimism. "You always have the potential to get better," writes Oprah in her introduction. "That, as I see it, is one of the purposes of your life: Not to be good but continuously to get better, to constantly move forward, to create the highest, grandest vision and to be led by that vision every...