• Seven prisoners sneak through the wire one night and head south, toward Lake Baikal.

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  • For Andrew Blum, a writer for Wired, that illusion was shattered on the day a squirrel chewed through the wire connecting his house to the internet.

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  • Bodemeister, trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by jockey Mike Smith, led the field with an early, blazing pace that looked like it would hold through the wire.

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  • Then they run pulses of current through the wire.

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  • As I crossed through the wire at the lead of the convoy, I called my departure report to Squadron Operations Center and told my detachment to lock and load their weapon systems.

    NPR: Amputee Wounded in Iraq to Return to Active Duty

  • This defect allows one otherwise excluded wavelength to travel through the wire, permitting extremely precise filtering that could, in principle, be used to resolve many hundreds of individual signals carried along an individual fibre.

    ECONOMIST: New-age crystals

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

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  • When Wells launched its mobile banking in 2007, the bank built out its services, including the ability to do wire payments through the cell phone.

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  • This is powered by an external battery which is linked to the device by a wire entering through the skull and passing down the neck.

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  • At the top of the railings, razor wire was woven through the spikes, he said, adding to the hazards: none of them knew how Manning had done it, especially since he was a bit drunk then, too.

    NEWYORKER: Bravado

  • The Dorset charity said the culprits cut through a wire fence at Rockley Boat Park and also stole a number of engines from private boats.

    BBC: Poole Sailability charity hit by second theft

  • 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

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

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  • My parents, who were really my first rescuers, pushed me through a hole they had dug under the wire while avoiding the guards, the searchlights and the dogs.

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  • During the session, Bryson awarded the China Council For The Promotion of International Trade with the Peace through Commerce Medal for its efforts to promote bilateral trade relations, the news wire reported.

    FORBES: China And US Sign Trade Agreements

  • They deliver a shock through the pet's collar if it crosses a boundary, such as a wire buried at the edge of a garden.

    BBC: Wales politics

  • "This really doesn't change anything, " said one young woman passing through an informal checkpoint set up by the barbed wire now sealing off the busy intersection to traffic.

    BBC: Egypt protesters defiant over Mubarak

  • The proton makes its way to the cathode through the electrolyte, while the electron goes there the long way round via a wire that leads into whatever the fuel cell is powering, and back again.

    ECONOMIST: The dawn of micropower

  • In many Asian countries, for instance, incoming wire-service reports are directed through the national news agency.

    CNN: INFORMATION

  • It has been remarked (by Richard Bacon, I think) that these scandals are like The Wire, working series by series through every institution.

    BBC: Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy

  • There seems little doubt that the barriers, trenches and barbed wire in place near the church can stop the Orangemen forcing their way through, but Mr MacCionnaith is warning local people to be on alert in case there's a re-run of the scenario in 1996 when the decision to block the parade was eventually reversed.

    BBC: Day of reckoning passes peacefully

  • Send a certain amount of electricity through a wire long enough, and nothing arrives at the other end.

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  • Many bands and performers who were to become musical legends passed through the show including U2, REM, The Smiths, Depeche Mode and Joy Division - but of late On the Wire has taken a more relaxed view of the music scene and is as likely to play pre-war hillbilly music as much as experimental dance or dub.

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  • Although not always effective, this equipment may help cut the wire so that the helicopter may safely pass through.

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  • Those men had been through a grueling season in which their clubs went down to the wire not just in the domestic championship but in the Copa del Rey and Champions League, as well.

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  • "So maybe Bieber didn't think through that message so much, " proposes Adam Clark Estes in the Atlantic Wire.

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  • Instead of jamming electrons through wire, generators convert them to microwave signals and fling these along the surface of the earth, between a system of relays spaced about 20 or 30 miles apart.

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

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  • If a conductive wire is run between the two, electrons released by the lead will run through it towards the lead dioxide, generating an electrical current as they do so.

    ECONOMIST: Einstein and car batteries

  • Thus, while this information can be socialized, it also needs to go through traditional proactive channels so that all current and potential investors have simultaneous access to the news via designated wire services.

    FORBES: When Socializing Is Not Enough

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