Word: coiled
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...when residents are seeking relief from the brutal summer heat by bedding down on their roofs between midnight and 4 a.m. It scratches its victims and bounds out of sight into the darkness. Some say it's a monster with a black monkey face and human legs, possibly with coil springs on its feet. Or a robot invader with steel claws. Just possibly, the marauder is a half-human spy in an iron mask from neighboring Pakistan sent to destabilize the Indian capital...
...only person in America who’s sick of Timothy McVeigh’s long-chinned mug. It certainly seems that way, now that all the pundits, pontificators and pop philosophers have taken him back into their headline-happy hearts, using his impending exit from this mortal coil as an excuse to bloviate on their favorite topics—the (im)morality of the death penalty, the perils of home-grown government haters, the dangers of terrorism, the inadequacies of the criminal justice system and onward down the list...
...cardiac patient and replace it with the device seen at right--the first fully implantable, entirely self-contained mechanical heart. The $75,000 pump is a technological tour de force. Fashioned of titanium and plastic, it is powered by a wallet-size battery pack that transmits energy to a coil under the skin. Patients should be able to walk, shower, even return to work--as long as they recharge every four hours. AbioMed hopes to install more if the experimental design works reliably and delivers good quality of life. But the company has a long way to go to meet...
Somalia's seat of government is two modest Mogadishu hotels. The Prime Minister and most of the ministers have small, basic offices in the three-story Ramadan, where a coil of barbed wire stretches across the driveway and visitors are frisked for weapons at the door. "I haven't made new business cards yet," says Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galaydh, handing over a card identifying him as the chairman of a telephone company based in Dubai. "We have no furniture, no stationery, no buildings. We have nothing." Parliament met for the first time in a blue-and-orange-tiled hall...
...What's that?" I asked, pointing to a coil of black, braided rope with a harness that was hanging from a big brass hook near the bedroom window...