The warped remains of a horse trailer lay atop a barbed-wire fence less than 50 yards from the highway.

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For example, she hacked a Jawbone Up fitness tracking device by wrapping the bracelet in gold wire to make it look less like a sports accessory and more like jewelry.

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You can even use an old-fashioned wire to hook them up to less-portable devices a desktop computer or CD player, for example.

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You bought it from a wire rack in the bus terminal, less than a dollar a shot, and took home Alfred Bester, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley, and many others and then you saw things differently, in extraordinary company.

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But even banks that claim to comply with it now, such as Britain's NatWest and Germany's Deutsche Bank, say they cannot guarantee a transfer time of less than six days for most payments by wire.

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Satellite telephones should also be useful in shipping and aviation, as well as in less-developed countries that lack either modern fixed-wire or wireless telephone infrastructures.

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Shaking the chalice to randomize the ballots is smart, but putting the ballots in a wire cage and spinning it around would be more secure -- albeit less reverent.

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It costs less than ISDN or T1 lines, it flows over existing copper wire and, unlike cable, its bandwidth doesn't diminish as more neighbors hop onboard.

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