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...they solve an old problem: how to avoid serious harm while capturing suspects who are a danger more to themselves than to others. The Houston officers who serve commitment warrants on the mentally disturbed use Tasers regularly and gratefully; injuries are down. The XR-5000, says Police Chief Conrad Teller of Southampton, N.Y., "sets them on their fanny nice and quiet. So far as we can see, it's the most humane way to do it." There are police complaints, however. The devices do not always work. Large and aggressive suspects sometimes keep on coming despite being zapped. Lieut. David...
...unusually bad weather conditions, as well as overcoming a gender barrier, was Libby Riddles, 28, the first woman ever to win Alaska's Anchorage-to-Nome Iditarod dogsled race. Two weeks into the 18-day trek, while her competition opted to sit out a fierce snowstorm, the musher from Teller, Alaska, pressed on with her team of 13 dogs. Out on the ice, almost unable to see, "I kept telling myself how foolish I was being for doing this," recalls Riddles. But fools who rush on can sometimes beat the waiting wise men cold. She swept across the finish line...
...handful of the 69 closed S and Ls reopened late last week, no new runs started. Generally, customers came in only to get walking-around money. At the Savings One Association in Dresden, a longtime customer deposited $15,000 as a show of support. Said Helen Mershon, a teller at the Southern Ohio Savings Association in St. Bernard: "Some of our customers just came in to say hello...
...Writer in most scenes, establishes a familiarity with the audience that grows with each scene. One forgets that he is one of the actors. Even when he plays an alternate role, such as the seducer of other men's wives (still chuckling about that scene), he carries this story teller familiarity with...
White, by his own description is a "story-teller" with the story being a search for history, Visiting Fellows Coordinator Derrick A. West '87 said. White's career began in China during World War 11, when he was a corresponded for Time magazine...