Word: wiring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...GETTING WIRED Doctors replaced the needle tip with a thin wire that they threaded through the constricted valve...
...OPENING THE VALVE A small balloon was snaked along the wire and inflated with fluid to prop open the valve...
...competitions and "Enron Hubbard, head of the Church of Profitology") to predictable ("We used to pay for powder in little white envelopes"). Comedians who play closer to the edge, like Chris Rock or Andy Dick, make his style seem quaint. But Robin Williams' improv is still an amazing high-wire act. "It's a risk if it doesn't work," he told TIME last month. "But it's a gas. You go out and kick it, and every night you pick up new stuff...
...first thing TIME.comix noticed: Some of these guys looked like their drawings. Burns sports a nearly bald pate and black-rimmed eyeglasses. Chris Ware, with a large Corrigan-esqe head, tries to bashfully shrink into his chair. Kidd, whose sweeping part of dark hair and wire-rim glasses give him the look of a teenage Devo fan, began by asking Art Spiegelman what it means to be a successful cartoonist. "It's a very mixed blessing," Spiegelman said. "I've felt this incredible weight ever since 'Maus' became a crossover hit because it puts all these eyeballs looking over...
...journalists want to talk about is the minister's assassination and whether it presages a power struggle with the heavyweights of the Northern Alliance, Fahim and Qanooni. Karzai deflects the question, exhibiting the bouncy optimism that many take for naivete. He's like a high-wire artist pretending to be only a few feet above ground. "How do I do this?" says Karzai. "I don't know. I just go ahead...