They promise regeneration, rejuvenation, and replacement of the most basic organic structures; rolling back your cells sounds like a scientific gloss on the fountain of youth, and that's a powerful, if simplistic, message.
Little of the promised regeneration was stimulated by its presence, and a fine new Tube station at North Greenwich by Will Alsop promised only the grating absurdity of delivering 30,000 passengers an hour to visit diddly-squat.
Promises of regeneration featured large in his speech.Fingers crossed.
Algenist, based in America, promises cellular regeneration from "Alguronic acid"—an extract derived from algae.Claims like these irk critics such as David Colquhoun, a pharmacologist at University College London.
Londoners who believe they will capitalise on the 2012 games thanks to promises of regeneration and the Olympics' positive "legacy" take heed: aboriginal people were positioned as one of the main beneficiaries of the much-vaunted legacies from 2010.
For Heidegger, indeed, the promises of regeneration implicit within Nazism went well beyond German borders: it had been called upon to realise his longed-for "destruction of modernity", putting an end to the egalitarian massification which had, of course, seen its most ruinous expression in the October Revolution, but had begun long beforehand with the advent of liberalism and democracy.
Promises of regeneration were made after the disorder but, for many people in Tottenham, nothing has changed.
Firstly, local politicians are still depressingly likely to fall for any glitzy promise of "regeneration" that developers offer up.
The trickle-down benefits promised by regeneration schemes, that support of businesses would eventually benefit middle and lower income families, have not materialised.
LONDON — President Obama used his Inaugural Address to promise the regeneration of an America many in recent years had feared lost.
