Word: comas
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...prison for conspiring to kill Cherica Adams, his eight-months-pregnant girlfriend; in Charlotte, North Carolina. Carruth, who was accused of setting up the drive by shooting in 1999 in order to avoid paying child support, was acquitted of first-degree murder. Adams died after a month in a coma, but her baby survived an emergency delivery by caesarean section...
...than an imaginative act. Indeed, there are times when, as in The Location of a Line, 1975 (in the catalog but not included in the Whitney incarnation of the show), the written instructions sound like a mad, pedantic math teacher droning himself and everyone else within range into a coma. Compared with this boilerplate, Euclid reads like Mickey Spillane...
...called dietary supplements containing 1, 4-butanediol are banned--and the pure stuff can melt a plastic-foam cup--1, 4-butanediol is still peddled on the Internet for its supposed body-building, aphrodisiac and energy-boosting powers. Researchers report that in 1999 at least six Americans suffered coma, seizures or respiratory arrest after ingesting 1, 4-butanediol...
...constant levels in the body. They typically start low, rise to a peak and then decline. When that happens, Langer says, "those peaks can sometimes be toxic and the valleys totally ineffective." He cites as examples insulin and sleeping pills: "Too much insulin can put you into a coma. Not getting enough insulin can be fatal. Too much sleeping pill can kill you. Too little, and you lie awake all night...
...falls into the illegal side of his uncle's subway car business by accident, helped along the way by his best friend Willie. But of course things go wrong (they always do) and Leo ends up the target of a police search for putting a police officer in a coma. By the end of the movie, he has been hunted by his own family; soon after, family members and friends are dead or ailing or going to jail. The sad and crucial thing is, Leo is not a bad guy. He only wanted to make it up to his mother...