Higher education has been transformed: more than half a million students started on a degree course this year.
The workforce has been transformed more in half a lifetime than in any previous period in capitalism.
No song was transformed more than the Roots' version of "Masters of War," which was trenchant two nights after the election.
Michelle Bachmann was the night's other big name: another disappointed Presidential contender, transformed, more or less convincingly, into an enthusiastic supporter of the Republican ticket.
And then you might say something like, "What do you think of Boucher?" (or any one of a thousand painters), and she would be transformed, more alive than at any other time.
But let's not forget that even if all the allegations turn out to be true, Greg has still built more schools and transformed more children's lives than you or I ever will.
Jones is not the first writer to find that a classic swashbuckler translates effectively into outer space, and, in this case, the fun of finding familiar elements strangely transformed more than compensates for any predictability in terms of how the plot will go.
Linking knowledge with action for effective societal responses to persistent problems of unsustainability requires transformed, more open knowledge systems.
