At Bammel, students can use the Internet without being tethered to a lab or a few wired computers at the back of a classroom.
It was in early 1995, after Ms. Zhu's illness stumped doctors at one of Beijing's premier hospitals, that a desperate high school classmate posted a cry for help on one of the few wired computer terminals then available in China.
We've got a few wires here.
We could see sacks of sugar and in them some electronic device, a few wires and a clock.
In one video by neuroscientist Greg Gage, two on-stage volunteers are connected to the device – little more than a few wires, some flashing circuitry and a laptop.
Simpler, more fragile, quite a few wires disconnected, but the person I knew: wacky, alternative, wanting to please, was still very definitely there.
"The first time I met Loha, he took me to a transformer, rearranged a few wires and I watched it blow up," confessed Mr. Mustafa, 28, who lived in Kanpur as a child.
It was tiny: a sliver of germanium on a piece of glass, half the size of a paper-clip, with a few wires sticking out to connect it to an oscilloscope.
A prime example is Stan Valchek, the commander of the south-eastern district, who ends season five one of the few Wire winners despite being repeatedly exposed as vindictive, devious and incompetent.
The components that lay just beneath the cover included a motherboard, a battery and few wires, fixed to the base of the tablet, and they were stuck together using blue plastic tape to avoid a rattling sound that could be produced by vigorous shaking of the tablet, Mr. Singh said.
