In this influential work about the staggering divide between children and the outdoors, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today's wired generation--he calls it nature-deficit--to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as the rises in obesity, attention disorders, and depression.
This year, Winfrey seemed to grab hold of every live wire of rage, sadness, hope, and uncertainty dangling around the room and channel them into a truly breathtaking oration.
Kenny Simpson of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) has had an insight into the lives of suburban drug barons via wire taps and other forms of surveillance.
In the Andes cacti are often planted on the top of dry stone walls where they act as a sort of living barbed wire, with the wall giving them the perfect drainage they love.
A new BBC editor arrives, played by Peter Capaldi (best known as Malcolm on "The Thick of It"), a welcome live wire of acrid charisma.
His decision to fly the flag above his nine restaurants was the equivalent of grabbing hold of a live wire, and, thus far, he has been unable to let go.
"We have our hands on one of the live wires of this case," KSM's counsel David Nevin told the court, and the judge agreed.
Two days before, there had been a real bomb, in a real city, that had caused real deaths and injuries, and now, for a moment, the whole diverting fakery of a movie franchise — the machinery of the Marvellous — had brushed against the live wire of unfeigned pain.
In other words, the director of "The Age of Adaline," Lee Toland Krieger, has gotten hold of a live wire, thanks to the screenwriters J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz.
Lee is too much of a live wire to maintain the kind of attack that Michael Mann, for instance, launched against corporate devilry in "The Insider," and Anthony Mackie, taking his first leading role, as Jack, cannot hope to generate the steady incandescence that Denzel Washington brought to "Malcolm X".
