Word: comas
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Sidling up to the Vatican, the country's mercurial Prime Minister weighed in heavily on the Englaro case, declaring his moral obligation to do whatever possible to "save a life in danger." Berlusconi said that if it were his daughter lying in a coma, he wouldn't cut life support. Before her death he said that he'd been told that Englaro is "hypothetically" able to bear children. On Feb. 6 the prime minister introduced a decree that would have forced the doctors to provide full care and feeding to Englaro, but Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign...
...Russian military to neo-fascists and nationalist organizations. He had worked closely with Novaya Gazeta investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya before she was murdered in 2006 and had recently begun to look into the circumstances behind the November attack on journalist Mikhail Beketov, a beating that left Beketov in a coma for two weeks and resulted in the amputation of a leg and some fingers...
...Bulow, Sunny •coma is not emerged from...
After he was convicted of attempted murder, Claus asked me to give the case a fresh view. My team of students and I hired some of the world's greatest medical experts to give a second hard look at the evidence. Their conclusion was unambiguous. Sunny's coma was self-induced. Claus' conviction was reversed, and he was acquitted...
...policeman's shoulder in 1993, but the worst accident came in 1997, when 43-mph winds blew The Cat in the Hat into a lamppost, causing the metal arm to fall off and hit 33-year-old Kathleen Caronna on the head. Caronna spent nearly a month in a coma, then sued Macy's and the city for $395 million. (The parties reached an undisclosed settlement in 2001.) Nine years later, in a strange twist of "only in New York" fate, Yankee relief pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his private airplane into Caronna's highrise apartment...