Word: blur
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...unshakable part of this belief is that the neurons used to build these memory circuits are a depletable resource, like petroleum or gold. We are each bequeathed a finite number of cellular building blocks, and the supply gets smaller each year. That is certainly how it feels as memories blur with middle age and it gets harder and harder to learn new things. But like so many absolutes, this time-honored notion may have to be forgotten--or at least radically revised...
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger, who share credit for the redesign, were smart enough not to mess too much with the building. "Sir Giles Scott created a monument," says Gugger. "We wanted to blur the boundaries of the monument, to turn it into open space." Blur is the right word. It's the gentle transformation of a giant. The most astonishing thing about it may be that a looming, great, scary industrial complex could become something so polite...
...continent away, just call him or her on a lifelike, 3-D video-conferencing system. If you need to get busy on a project with a few of your colleagues, simply fold up your movable workstation and roll over to them. You won't have to knock. "We'll blur the line between furniture and technology," says Rick Duffy, director of the knowledge-resource group at Herman Miller. "Instead of building walls of metal and wood, what if they inflated with air or water...
Furthermore, Medwed's characters lack depth. Daisy, Truman and Henry all speak and act with much the same voice, and as a result blur into one non-distinct personality. The only truly distinct personas are, in fact, the international students, by virtue of the fact that Medwed blatantly exploits them through their ethnic stereotypes. There's an Italian lover, a pert, fashionable Francaise and a few Asian guys who speak broken English, wear black leather jackets and play video games. Perhaps the most insulting portrayal, though, is that of the Lewises' first student, an Indonesian named Pilombaya who is illustrated...
...most of us, the stock market is usually a blur, a swirl of statistics, charts and CNBCNNfn commentators telling us somestockweown or somestockwedon't is up or down. For a few hours last week, however, everything came into focus, and it seemed our (new) economy was clearly moving in the direction indicated by one company: Cisco...