Today, we have an enlarged NATO with increasing (though still far from adequate) capabilities, a good plan for streamlining NATO's command structure, a new NATO four-star command focused specifically on military transformation and an affirmative answer once and for all to that old chestnut, can NATO take on a mission out of area.

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Bieber is clearly heading down the path of many child stars desperate to make the transformation into grown-up star.

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After the Olympics came a vast transformation to the current Michelin star-studded gastronomic paradise, likewise a renaissance for office towers, shinkansen fast trains, freeways and, later, mass foreign tourism with a strong currency and credit cards.

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And it can still move pop culture--witness Jessica Simpson's transformation from Britney Spears wannabe to bona-fide star, via the network's Newlyweds reality show.

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Alec Baldwin's self-transformation into a character actor is one of the most sensible and honorable things that a fading movie star has ever done.

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