They are taken over the Friendship Bridge and handed over to Korean guards who, according to a witness, string the prisoners together by running a steel wire through their flesh.

ECONOMIST: North Korea

"The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem ... that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent, " he said.

CNN: Obama could inherit Gaza crisis

To compensate for this movement of ions, electrons have to move in the opposite direction and if the electrodes are connected by a conducting wire running through a useful circuit, that is the route they will take.

ECONOMIST: Electricity storage

With networks of wire already running into homes all over the country, cable companies can now deliver high-speed internet access.

FORBES: Turning On Cable Stocks

Running through the yellowing subsidiary wire stories on papal deaths of yesteryear was like opening a time capsule.

CNN: Pope's resignation a new angle to a tough news beat

The latch works by running an electrical current down a signal wire, through two switches.

ECONOMIST: A molecular replacement for the transistor?

In 1980 RPM begat Spinoff which in 1984 mutated into On the Wire, now the longest running continuous alternative music show on UK radio - and due to celebrate its 25th anniversary in September 2009 with a month-long extravaganza of special extended shows and guests from both Lancashire and across the globe.

BBC: Presenter profile: Steve Barker

"Film reel running out of time, " blared one wire headline.

FORBES: Pixel Perfect

The company that the group started that day, Grand Junction, would go on to build Fast Ethernet, running at 100 megabits per second on ordinary telephone wire, ending Ethernet's bottleneck.

ECONOMIST: CASE HISTORY: Out of the ether | The

J. (Oct. 31) -- As New Jersey's governor's race goes down to the wire, incumbent Gov. Christie Whitman is running hard, looking for votes on a hectic 97-stop, 10-day bus tour of the Garden State.

CNN: Whitman's Lead Shrinks In N.J. Governor's Race