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...last week, came the most detailed report to date. Communist sources there told TIME Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter that Mao had suffered a stroke on Sept. 2 and was in critical condition; only a massive medical effort was keeping him alive. According to the sources, while Mao alternated between coma and consciousness decision-making in Peking was being handled by a triumvirate: Defense Minister Lin Piao, officially designated by the party last spring as Mao's heir; Premier Chou Enlai; and Ideologue Chen Pota, one of the main figures in the Cultural Revolution. The report hinted that a Chou...
Archer's style is calm verging on coma. He never blows up over a bad shot. He never celebrates a birdie. He does not smoke, drink or swear. Before a match, he is often in bed by 9:30 p.m. "I just try to concentrate on my golf," he says, "and I have enough trouble doing that without worrying about my image." Once, when an onlooker cried "Nice shot, honey!" he muttered, "Thanks, lady," totally unaware that it was his wife Donna. "Maybe," he said, "I should take acting lessons...
Hopkins University estimates that it takes only two or three paint chips a day, over a three-month period, to cause severe illness and perhaps induce a life-threatening coma...
...metal, lead is a cumulative poison. The human body can dispose of the minute quantities that it ingests in food and water. But any unnatural overload piles up, causing abdominal cramps ("painter's colic"), lassitude, irritability, vomiting and twitching. In severe cases, the victim may lapse into a coma. Prolonged lead poisoning damages the brain so insidiously that its effects may not be evident for years...
...child is not poisoned severely enough to go into a coma, his symptoms may be so vague that they raise no suspicion of lead poisoning. For borderline cases, or for children under suspicion because they live in the same building as a known victim, there are several blood and urine tests, and an ingenious method of detecting lead (by spectrophotometry) in a snippet of their hair...