Word: melded
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While its future ownership is in doubt, the buttoned-down brain trust at PARC has lost none of the anything-goes enthusiasm that made it famous in the first place. It's a place where experts from entirely different academic disciplines mind-meld furiously, then run off in pursuit of the most challenging technological problems they can come up with. And right now, at the dawn of the Internet age, PARC scientists are most motivated by the question of how we digest our increasingly bloated diet of data. After all, they say, your total potential reading matter increased...
...planet, let alone the intelligent, relentlessly logical Vulcans. But Epsilon was the star of choice in at least one Star Trek book, and the Earthling who first made contact with the Vulcans was ZEPHRAIM COCHRANE--just an extra e away from Texas astronomer Cochran. Talk about a mind meld...
...sincere, what next? The agreement signed by the two Kims is skimpy on details. Reuniting separated families is an appealing idea, but more than 6 million South Koreans have relatives in the North. Who gets to go? Most perplexing of all, where does one start in trying to meld North Korea's Stone Age economy with the Internet-savvy South. Then there's the issue the two leaders merely flirted with: the weapons of mass destruction that Pyongyang uses to threaten the rest of the world. Warns Victor Cha, a Korea expert at Georgetown University in Washington: "Handshakes and hugs...
TIME senior writer RICHARD LACAYO always seems to have one foot in our Nation section and the other in the Arts section. Those realms meld this week in his story on Frank Gehry, as Lacayo sizes up the architect's artistic and social impact. Not exactly a hardship assignment, the story required him to visit Gehry-designed structures across the globe, including those in Seattle as well as in Barcelona and, of course, Bilbao, Spain...
...screen, words move, meld into pictures, change color and perhaps even meaning. Sometimes there are no words at all, only pictures or diagrams or glyphs that may be deciphered into multiple meanings. This is terribly unnerving to any civilization based on text logic...