Word: transformational
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...more than a year, and its cost (about $225,000) puts it beyond the reach of nearly all consumers. But virtual reality has already attracted a cult following in and around California's Silicon Valley. Enthusiasts are convinced that today's EyePhones are the forerunners of systems that will transform the way Americans work and play. They have visions of workers stepping into electronic suits to "commute" to virtual offices, surgeons honing their technique on virtual patients, honeymooners frolicking on virtual Caribbean vacations, astronauts exploring virtual planets by remote control...
...such widely praised individual school districts as Cambridge, Mass., and New York City's East Harlem can select which public schools they will attend. These are grass- roots manifestations of a political idea that is rapidly gaining momentum and, if fully implemented, holds the potential to radically transform American public education...
...kind of biological taxi to transport a desired gene into the nucleus of human blood cells. In one experiment, a team led by Dr. Steven Rosenberg proposes to treat malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer, with blood cells that have been genetically altered to transform them into tiny factories for a tumor-killing protein...
Pitts, 65, is quite a tree shaker herself. Scholar, writer and bureaucratic infighter, she has done as much as anyone else to transform the field of historic preservation from a grass-roots trend to a mainstream movement. During her 16-year tenure with the Department of the Interior, she has helped designate more than 200 structures and districts as National Historic Landmarks. Among her assorted trophies are Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in Bear Run, Pa., and the elephant-shaped hotel in Margate City, N.J. While there are 55,000 sites, properties and districts on the National Register...
...entire Central Committee and its ruling Politburo. The daring delegate also wanted the party leadership to tell the 4,657 delegates why so little had been accomplished since the last party Congress, in February 1986, which had launched Gorbachev's ambitious -- and increasingly beleaguered -- program of perestroika to transform the Soviet Union...