Word: wiring
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...BEEN SAID that West's rhymes against higher education make him a dangerous role model, in which case--good. Dangerous role models are the only ones, musically speaking, worth a damn. As the survivor of a life-threatening car wreck (he recorded his vocals for the song Through the Wire with his jaw wired shut), West isn't really anticollege so much as drunk on live-life-now narcissism. He uses most of Dropout, winner of the Best Rap Album prize, to congratulate himself for doing the work it took to become a star and berating the chumps...
...Number of caplets, out of 70 million scanned by a metal detector, found to contain tiny bits of wire...
...Perrigo bottles could be contaminated with small metal particles that range in size from "microdots" to 8 mm long wire fragments...
Give President Bush credit for being honest about his dishonesty. Last week he told reporters for the top wire news services - the AP, Reuters, Bloomberg - that Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were doing fabulous work and would remain in their jobs as Defense Secretary and Vice President right up to the end of Bush's second term. Today at his post-election press conference the President more or less admitted he was lying, at least about Rumsfeld...
...school, he believes in seeing what you write about. With history, he must be content to recreate things, like a detective at a crime scene. "You try to redraw the landscape," he writes. "You try to draw in trench lines ... and khaki bundles hung up on barbed wire." Near Ypres, he watched archaeologists probe the spot where a man's bones had been found. They unearthed a belt buckle, bullet casings, bits of leather. The unknown soldier kept coming into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell hit?" he writes. "Who wept for him?" Near...