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...drab cinder-block real-estate office to find Mansur dressed in slippers and wrapped in a white-knit blanket; he was slumped in an easy chair with the telltale mask strapped to his face. A string tied to the middle finger of his left hand was connected to a clip on the tubes running from two cylinders labeled CARBON MONOXIDE. The body was gaunt, the skin yellow-green. For the past few months, Mansur had been too sick to drive and carried a morphine pump around with him to combat the pain. "He was in hell," says longtime friend Donna...
...became flushed, agitated, saying "Take it off!" The mask was immediately replaced with oxygen, which helped calm him down. "The patient wanted to continue," the report states. "After about 20 minutes, with nasal oxygen continuing, the mask was replaced over his nose and mouth, and he again pulled the clip off the crimped tubing. In about 30 to 35 seconds he again flushed, became agitated with moderate hyperpnea ((rapid or deep breathing)); and immediately after saying "Take it off!" once again, he fell into unconsciousness. The mask was then left in place . . . Heartbeat was undetectable about 3 minutes after last...
...health-care plan, arguing that the President can't risk overloading the system by sending both his economic and his health packages to Capitol Hill. But she is undaunted. The past two weeks have been a blur of 16-hour days, meetings for two and three hours at a clip with the health-care task force, interrupted by congressional briefings. She insists, "There is no delay in what we're doing...
During last month's making of "The Firm," employees of The Ultimate Bagel Company were shocked by the entrance of customer Tom Cruise and the filming of the store's front for a possible movie clip...
...Last week the senate voted -- unanimously -- not to overturn the ban. What had changed? Citizens swamped lawmakers' offices with calls supporting the ban after Florio stumped the state, appealing to voters to voice their feelings about such weapons: pistols that whip off 10 shots or more from a single clip or the rapid-fire shotgun that drug dealers like to call "street sweepers...