Word: comas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial is Jet-Setter Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of twice trying to murder his heiress-wife of 15 years, Martha ("Sunny"), by injecting her with insulin. Sunny, 50, went into a coma at Christmas time in 1979 and again in 1980; the second seems irreversible. She "is alive in the most primitive sense of the word . . . vegetative," said Prosecutor Stephen Famiglietti. The defense contends that Sunny brought on the comas by overindulging in alcohol, sweets and drugs...
...prosecution's star witness so far has been Maria Schrallhammer, Sunny's maid for 23 years. On the day of the first coma in 1979, she testified, she had heard "madame" moaning and had entered the bedroom: "She was rattling, and I thought she would die any second." But, said Schrallhammer, Von Bülow had insisted his wife was only sleeping and refused for almost nine hours to heed the maid's pleas to call a doctor. Later, Schrallhammer testified, she had found in Von Bülow's closet a black bag containing hypodermic...
...case right out of Agatha Christie, a high-society saga with all the elements of mystery: a beautiful woman in a coma, an aristocratic second husband, suspicious stepchildren and a fabulous fortune. This is no storybook yarn but a true-life tale that has scandalized the gentry. The final chapter began to unfold last week in Newport, R.I., where jury selection was nearly completed in the trial of Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha with injections of insulin, precipitating the coma in which she has languished for more than...
...affair, reportedly with New York City Socialite Alexandra Isles, a sometime actress who appeared in the television gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. They contend that Sunny was a pathologically shy woman, who assuaged her demons with alcohol, drugs and compulsive eating, and either deliberately or accidentally caused the coma through her own excesses. Von Bülow, they say, had no need of her money, since he was capable of earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on his own and had, in fact, been working part time, which disturbed Sunny because she wanted all of his attention. There...
...Conversely, Kissebah warns, women with what he calls "upper-body obesity" (excess fat deposited mainly around the waist, chest, neck and arms) are high-risk candidates for the disorder, which may cause blurred vision, persistent drowsiness, frequent urination, cramps in legs, feet and fingers, and can eventually lead to coma and even death. "To put it simply," says Kissebah, "the bigger the waist, compared with the hips and thighs, the higher the risk of developing diabetes...