Word: wiring
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...Frenchman named Philippe Petit, aided by a slightly fractious team of co-conspirators, sneakily managed to string a wire between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, 1350 feet above the ground. At 7:15 that morning he stepped out on the wire and danced and pranced on it for something like an hour before the cops nabbed...
...utmost fitness, as there are virtually no stoppages and minimal reserves of replacement players. As for equestrian competition, when the Australian team won the three-day event over the killer course at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, it was rumored that they practiced by hunting kangaroos across barbed-wire fences. J. Alice Hofler, Sydney...
...Kurtz and a colleague were eventually charged with mail and wire fraud connected to the way they had purchased bacteria for one of Kurtz's projects. The indictment made no mention of terrorism. This spring, after the case made headlines, and artists and activists raised $300,000 for his defense, a U.S. District Court judge threw out the indictment, calling it "insufficient". The U.S. Attorney's office in Buffalo announced in June that it would not appeal...
...that of the invited delegates," ruled U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock in 2004, in response to outcry over the arrangements for protesters at the Democratic convention in Boston. At the time, the zone for protesters - a cordoned-off area under an abandoned railroad track topped by razor wire - was widely seen as affront to the spirit of free expression, but the court finally ruled that protesters had filed their objections too late to make changes to the security plan...
...Kill (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.), which combines bone-rattling action, lacerating drama and comedy as dark and dirty as a nighttime sandstorm. Produced and co-written by David Simon and Ed Burns, who took a similar approach to America's urban ills in the brilliant HBO cop drama The Wire, Kill is no fictional critique. It's based on the book by embedded journalist Evan Wright, and the adaptation is faithful to his book down to the precise dialogue...