• When Tasers are fired, two metal barbs connected to the weapon by a thin wire pierce the skin before the charge is delivered.

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  • Additional tests may include a nuclear stress test to assess for blockages in the coronary arteries, and if positive, a cardiac catheterization, an invasive test which involves threading a thin wire into the heart to assess for blockages in the coronary arteries as well.

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  • By contrast, check out today's announcement from Big Blue: Its new flagship eServer zSeries 990 runs up to 9 billion instructions per second on 32 processors--three times the system capacity of its predecessor z900--thanks in part to a palm-sized package of copper and silicon-on-insulator semiconductors with over 3.2 billion transistors and 500 meters of ultra-thin wire.

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  • This way he doesn't have to rely on thin, copper wire and slow performance.

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  • Then a thin, flexible wire was threaded through the needle, and the needle and catheter were removed.

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  • An LV lead (a thin, coated wire) is placed on the lower left chamber of the heart (the left ventricle) to stimulate the two sides of the heart to beat in synchronization with each other, which helps the heart to beat more efficiently.

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  • Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.

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  • Conte, who is sixty, has a thin mustache and wears small wire-frame glasses that give him the appearance of a barrel-chested laboratory chemist.

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  • In Afghanistan, the foam would be wrapped in a low-tech layer of chicken wire, then covered in a thin layer of concrete.

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  • Staple a wire lath to plywood, as you would for a stucco wall, apply thin-set mortar and stick the artificial stones into the mortar.

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