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...investigation into the death of Jdimytai Damour, 34, is ongoing, and now that the lawsuits have begun (Damour's family has sued Wal-Mart, Green Acres Mall and other companies connected to the event), the major players have gone dark. The family's attorney, Jordan Hecht, did not return a call requesting comment, and a Wal-Mart spokesperson said he could not elaborate beyond the vague statements the company has already made...
...collection picks up with "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," a gothic, Poe-like tale about a wizard who uses Dark magic to make himself immune to love. He locks his heart away, literally, Horcrux-style, in a crystal case. By the time he finally goes to recover it he finds that his heart "had grown strange during its long exile, blind and savage in the darkness to which it had been condemned, and its appetites had grown powerful and perverse." Also it had gotten hairy. Rowling doesn't tell us the why of the hair, and no plot points turn...
...They’ve done an extremely good job about leaving me in the dark,” said Hoffmann, who sympathizes for the “poor” speakers...
...Fold Your Flapping Wings.” Infrequently performed, the song was cut early in the show’s initial run because reviewers found it too bleak for a light comic operetta. “In today’s cultural climate, a song being too dark is not a good reason to not do it,” Morris says. “The song emphasizes the more serious side and the social commentary of the show.” Morris and Miller are also hoping to bring back the classic Gilbert and Sullivan tradition of encores...
...simple? It appears to have been for the original inhabitants of the Amazon basin. In the 16th century, Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana wrote home describing the remarkably fertile lands he had discovered there. In the 19th century, American and Canadian geologists uncovered the reason: bands of terra preta (dark earth), which locals continued to cultivate successfully. Research revealed that the original inhabitants of the region had added charred wood and leaves - biochar - to their lands...