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Paul Valéry is cited at the beginning of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” as saying, “we must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.” The fulcrum of this exhibition, which spans the whole period of the techniques of modern flat printmaking, is the exposition of the vice and the virtue of this new technology...
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells found in embryos, whose potential to transform into specialized cells make them prime candidates for the study of many diseases. But stem cell research has elicited controversy because some feel that the destruction of embryos during research amounts to killing human life...
Kabbalah deals “not just in theology, which is the doctrine of the divine, but also in how to transform the conscience to become more aware of God, each other, ourselves and the true nature of reality,” Sendor said...
...order not only to win this election, but to lay the grounds for a Democratic revival, we need the courage to redefine the ideas the Right has tried to monopolize, not run from them. And when opportunities for meaningful change present themselves, we must show the courage to fundamentally transform both our party’s vision and our nation...
...strongmen don't come any stronger than General Abdul Rashid Dostum. A former communist general known to have ordered enemy captives crushed under a Russian tank, Dostum, 49, is trying to transform himself from warlord into smiling presidential candidate. That's going to take some finesse, given that he strikes fear in many Afghans in his northern stronghold of Shebarghan. Dostum's idea of campaigning is to sit on a thronelike chair in his rose garden and scowl at a line of deferential tribal elders, officials and militia commanders who will be expected to deliver votes from among the Uzbeks...