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...maker of the device, began offering the weapon to law enforcement agencies in 1998. Since then, more than 12,000 departments have adopted it. Yet critics say that more studies need to be done to determine the safety of the "less-than-lethal" device. Last month researchers at Wake Forest University released the first large, independent study of injuries associated with Tasers, finding that they are relatively harmless and pose minimal risk of injury. In a review of nearly 1,000 cases, 99.7% of those subjected to a Taser had no injuries or only mild ones, such as scrapes...
...sylph”—appears. She has a strange power over James that brings out his yearning and love, but every time he tries to touch her, she vanishes. When the sylph appears as they are about to take their wedding vows, James follows her into the forest and abandons his bride just as the curtains fall on the first...
...forest, the witch Madge (Melanie Atkins)—who had taken offense when James had ousted her from the wedding festivities earlier—gives James a magical scarf that will help him capture the sylph. Unfortunately, the scarf is poisoned, causing the sylph to lose her wings, go blind, and slowly die. At the end of the show Effie and James’ friend Gurn (John Lam) are married. “La Sylphide,” with its heart-wrenching ending, showed not only the beauty of chasing after an ideal, but also the losses of such...
...clutched her heart and died, it appeared as if that was the last moment of beauty in the ballet. But her depicted resurrection was a stunning aesthetic moment: Laying on the ground, covered in the translucent scarf that poisoned her, she was slowly elevated through the trees of the forest until she was out of sight. Meanwhile, the rest of the sylphs that inhabited the forest mourned for her in a funeral procession through the trees, under her floating corpse...
...everywhere. On stage at Commencement, he proudly displays his school colors among his grey-haired reunion classmates. At fancy dinner parties, he holds the door for those behind him and adeptly navigates a formidable forest of salad forks...