Word: coma
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...Ryazan, 300 km east of Moscow. When he returned home the next day, the fever worsened and his skin began peeling and breaking. When an ambulance was finally called a day later, he was so weak that he had to be carried to the car. He fell into a coma and died nine days later. Doctors suggest he had an allergic reaction to an unidentified substance, but his family, friends and colleagues in the liberal Yabloko Party demand an international investigation. Terror attacks against Russian civilians could hurt Putin in the run-up to parliamentary elections in December...
...first time in history that a man without the power of speech has the No. 1 record in the country. LUTHER VANDROSS had a stroke in April, and although he's no longer in a coma, he's still in the hospital. But his new album, Dance with My Father, buoyed by a hit single and sympathetic fans, sold more than 400,000 copies last week to grab the top spot on the Billboard charts--something Vandross had never done before. By contrast, last year's American Idol runner-up, Justin Guarini, who can't shut up, saw his first...
...listening." The family resisted putting the call on the speaker phone. "That was Catie's time with Jo," Gina says. "We didn't want to intrude on their privacy." The last few times Rowling called, Catie was too sick to come to the phone. She drifted into a coma and died...
AILING. ROBERT ATKINS, 72, founder of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet; in a coma, with severe head injuries, after slipping on ice and hitting his head on a sidewalk; in New York City. Doctors who performed surgery to relieve the pressure of the trauma said his condition was grave...
...scene is East Berlin in 1989. a diehard communist teacher is on her way to celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the East German state when she catches sight of her son in an antigovernment demonstration. She collapses from a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she regains consciousness eight months later, the communist world has been swept away - but her doctor warns her son that any stress could trigger another heart attack. So he hatches an elaborate plot to convince her that her beloved German Democratic Republic still exists. In Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall...