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...other educational news, Boston's SAT scores remained well below the national average, the Boston Schools Committee died after a multi-year coma, and Mayor Flynn finally appointed a new superintendent. She promptly told the press that she wouldn't rule out a quick exit if Boston's schools didn't show immediate improvement. "I'm fiercely protective of my career," she said...
...video) to breakthrough hits like Mario Van Peebles' dope opera New Jack City, the year's fourth highest grossing picture. Some of the black films pack promise, others just threaten -- but all are tonics to a movie industry that otherwise looks ready to doze off into a coma of retreads and revisionism...
...believed he was being cruelly persecuted because he is a Nicaraguan refugee who speaks no English. They noted that none of 82 similar incidents in Florida during the past four years have been prosecuted, including a March accident involving a white youngster in Broward County who remains in a coma. Others contended that prosecuting Rodriguez was the best way to prevent tragedies in the future. Florida officials had hoped that by making people feel Rodriguez's pain and imagine what it would be like to lose a small child, parents would be more prudent. Perhaps in that they succeeded...
...into the Carr family kitchen and laced some thallium nitrite into a pack of 16-oz. Coca-Cola Classic bottles. A few days later Peggy Carr's hair began falling out. Her feet burned, her fingers tingled and her stomach turned. Within a few weeks she was in a coma; three months later she was dead. Her sons and husband also showed symptoms but eventually recovered...
...well as a little boy afflicted with sickle-cell anemia. Because of the international blockade against Iraq, Roubayee says, the hospital lacks antibiotics and other medicines necessary to treat the patients. At least one of the men will soon die, he predicts, and the boy may lapse into a coma...