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...Crimson left Nickerson Field in a coma...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Green Hosts Crimson | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...horse, which is set horizontally. But the Yurchenko is still highly risky for the women. While warming up at the Tokyo World Sports Fair in May, American Julissa Gomez bounced badly off the springboard and hit her head against the horse. Instantly paralyzed, she later lapsed into a coma in a Tokyo hospital. She is now in Houston, and it is unknown whether she will ever regain consciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Gym Shorts: Danger in a Bold New Move | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...that very will is the object of a legal and ethical battle in the Minnesota courts. Five years ago, a drunk driver crashed into Sharon's car, killing her niece and leaving Sharon brain damaged and in a coma. She regained consciousness some weeks later, but could not speak and could move only her right hand. With the help of her roommate, Karen Thompson, an associate professor of physical education at St. Cloud State University, Sharon, then & 27, struggled to learn to sip from a glass, comb her hair, communicate with a typewriter. "We learned to play again, to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Tragic Tug-of-War | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...chronically unstable, aggressively hostile toward his younger brother, going so far as to distribute leaflets urging people to vote against his re-election as a state representative. In 1973, at the age of 42, Stelian was hit by a car while riding his bike; he slipped into a coma and died four months later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Childhoods | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...last February. On that occasion, 39 pledges at two of Princeton's notoriously wet eating clubs had wound up in the infirmary or the hospital after having been led, blindfolded, through a rite at which club members helped to pour liquor down their throats. One student lay in a coma for 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Dryout | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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