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Awards may look fat now, but how lean will they get after 20 years of inflation? With that sobering prospect in mind, the lawyers and family of Mrs. June Walker, 52, now lying in a coma in a San Gabriel, Calif., nursing home as a result of a series of improper medical procedures that occurred in a U.C.L.A. clinic, have worked out a new inflation-proof twist for damages in a malpractice suit. Faced with charges that ranged from unnecessary surgery, falsification of records and failure to monitor the patient, University of California regents have agreed to pay Mrs. Walker...
Last winter, Dr. Gerald Wohlberg, a psychiatrist at Boston State Hospital, was doing a routine day's work when a patient of his burst in with a handgun and shot him in the head. His wife Janet watched with her children as Wohlberg, in a coma for weeks, died a slow death. "It was such a small wound," she said at a press conference announcing the formation of People vs. Handguns, which she helped found. "But it blinded and deafened, then paralyzed him, and finally it stopped his respiration and suffocated...
ALTHOUGH WEALTHY countries like the U.S., Japan or France may not choke on their own waste, Illich predicts that their societies will collapse into a "sociocultural energy coma" and undergo cold-turkey treatment when they are forced by the rest of the world to reduce their energy consumption. Nations like China (for a short time, at least), India and Burma have not yet reached the point of no return and can still "stop short of an energy stroke." But while people in developed countries speed onward blindly addicted to ever-increasing energy consumption, he tells Third World peasants to remain...
...August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield and struck him in the forehead. He was pried from the wreck bloody and unconscious, and lay in a coma for a week. Friends knew that he was going to make it only when his aide, Ira Tucker Jr., knelt down next to Wonder's ear, started singing his song Higher Ground ("God is gonna show you higher ground/ He's the only friend you have around...
...Ithaca on February 9 the Crimson whipped the Big Red, 74-63. Right before that contest, Cornell's second-year head coach Tony Coma had announced his resignation for "personal reasons." Assistant Tom Allen stepped in as interim coach, a position he holds...