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Roughly $100 million dollars worth of duct tape is bought annually, more than enough to stretch to the moon, or circle the earth at the equator 12 times.

A 17-year-old resident of Loudoun County, Virginia is a finalist in Duck Tape’s annual “Stuck at Prom” Scholarship Contest, in which high school students compete to make the best possible prom wear out of duct tape. Christina Mellott, now a rising senior at Freedom High School, entered the contest this past school year after hearing about it from friends and family. Mellott has been designing clothes for three to four years already, and got her start in design after receiving a sewing machine for Christmas. Her friends and family thought she may be able to cinch the Duck Tape competition...

Parents: Grapevine teen bound, shocked 01:42 PM CDT on Monday, March 19, 2007 WFAA.com Staff GRAPEVINE — Grapevine police are investigating reports that a 13-year-old girl was assaulted at the home of a friend in the 4100 block of Harvest Glen Court. Police said the parents of the alleged victim called them on Saturday evening to report the assault, which include statements that the girl had been bound with duct tape and shocked with a hand-held Tazer gun. The parents of the unnamed girl told police they had let their daughter sleep over at the friend's house on Friday night....

I have been involved in a disagreement with the Alameda Unified School District concerning their support of teachers tying up students and duct-taping them to the floor. I am asking for your help. First, here's the latest status. The Alameda Board of Education voted to dismiss the appeal to the complaint because of the following: no one else complained. the pedagogical style was sound. it was not unsafe. students need to have an emotional response in order to learn. to deny teachers this style is stepping on academic freedom. they didn't mention anything about the traumatized child. they didn't mention...