1.   Desks were littered with yards of wire stories, celebrity bulletins, picture handouts, telephone messages, and empty coffee cups.

2.   Although the Web is packed with sites promising to deliver up-to-the-minute news, many of them offer old news or wire stories you could get elsewhere.

3.   A week ago, a short wire story noted that a downhill skateboarder preparing for the X Games in San Diego had been hit by a dump truck.

4.   He said the same is true of most other newspaper chains, with wire stories and syndicated features creating a canned feeling.

5.   I will be looking at the wire stories from both an intellectual and emotional perspective.

6.   No fewer than six cable news organizations offer World Wide Web sites crammed with scripts and wire stories.

7.   Palm Beach Post reporters Rachel Masory, Seth Mnookin and Joe Viduiera contributed to this story, which was supplemented with information from wire stories.

8.   One wire story more or less confirms this by claiming federal aid is the main source of income for this town.

9.   Photo reefer to inside wire story on terrorism bill.

10.   Reefers to NCAA stories and a wire story on fleeing Albanians making it to southern Italian ports.