(In Thomson's famous example, a person is hooked up to a famous violinist, who will die if she withdraws her body's support. While it might be virtuous to remain hooked up, Thomson argues that it is not required by morality).
One very elderly lady walked in hooked up to a small oxygen tank.
It is with apparently innocent enthusiasm that Bergner describes scenes of women masturbating while hooked up to M.R.I. scanners and having their vaginal blood flow measured by machines.
The researchers had participants play memory games with both words and pictures while hooked up to electroencephalography technology (EEG), which records processing differences in the frontal and temporal lobes.
"So the first thing this couple said to me when we kind of hooked up was 'Wow, we've got to get you some better clothes.' " Ben McGrath began working at The New Yorker in 1999, and has been a staff writer since 2003.
The appealing soprano Michèle Losier, as Diane, bravely allowed herself to descend from on high hooked up to just two wires, singing all the way.
Hooked up to the Internet wirelessly and to GPS, the system tabulates a charge for each car trip by using a mileage-based formula that also takes account of a car's fuel efficiency, the time of day and the route.
Hooked up to the Wi-Fi network, according to Ben Salama, UK and Ireland managing director of Accenture Mobility, the tech could be extended into areas as diverse as catering.
Hooked up to brain wave headsets, a researcher in India projected a thought to a colleague in France, and they understood each other.
Hooked up to the real arm, just another two hours training was all it needed to get back to the same level of performance.
