Word: wiring
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...protection of her personal self," he said. "We have had reports that suicide bombers may target her. She is not under house arrest and she is free to leave." His concern for Bhutto's well-being was somewhat belied by the four rows of coiled barbed wire, one metal barrier, two layers of concrete barricades, an armored personnel carrier and a phalanx of police officers eight deep blocking the entrance to her street...
...Islamabad, the nation's capital, but when President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule last Saturday, the rally morphed into an anti-emergency protest. By Friday morning, however, the protest was hardly able to get off the ground. Overnight, police blocked all private vehicles from entering Ralwalpindi, spread barbed wire across the streets of the protest venue and flooded the park grounds where she was to speak in order to prevent supporters from sitting on the ground. A few hundred protesters clashed with police at the barricades, but any efforts to defy the security forces quickly dissipated under blasts of tear...
...deposed, then hanged, her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the PPP. "My fellow Pakistanis," she shouted through a megaphone. "Our great country is under threat. I have not been served any arrest warrants, so technically I am free, but I am being physically prevented from leaving by barbed wire and blockades. This barbed wire is not against me, it is against the hopes and aspirations of the people...
...magnetic resonance imaging scans, mean that neurologists can now actually see what happens when we hear or even compose music. Scans show that, neurally, the experience of imagining music is much the same as listening to it. Also, that the corpus callosum, the mass of nerve fibers that wire the two hemispheres of the brain together, is enlarged in professional musicians. "Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician," Sacks writes, "but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment's hesitation." Yet he worries...
...Being an IG is no easy task - some liken the job to straddling barbed wire, or to being a skunk at a garden party. The IG must maintain a good working relationship with the agency director but at the same time maintain independence. At the CIA, for instance, there is always tension when headquarters staff investigate field operatives, who often complain that the Langley suits don't understand field conditions, says Frederick Hitz, CIA IG from 1990 1998 and now a lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. "That accusation is leveled at every...