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...background, peaceful scenes of Egyptian villages flashed onto the screen. Finally an announcer told the viewers that the President had left the parade. By that time, the toll from the attack stood at five killed and 28 wounded, including four Americans. Sadat was in the hospital in a coma, blood gushing from his mouth. Bullets and shrapnel had ripped into the left side of his chest, his neck, knee and thigh. A later medical bulletin would reveal that death occurred at 2:40 p.m., two hours after the attack began, and that it was due to "violent nervous shock...
...University of California in San Francisco, was in a tiny patient with a rare inherited disease called biotin dependency. Biotin, a B vitamin, is necessary for certain metabolic processes. In people with the disease, the body's use of biotin is somehow disrupted. Symptoms include hair loss, lethargy, coma and susceptibility to infection. The only treatment is daily doses of the vitamin...
THEY GOT THE NEWS from the radio and the t.v. It'd been pretty obvious for 18 hours or so, ever since he went into a coma, that he would die. And when word finally came, they went into the streets and began to beat the lids of trash cans against the pavement and whistle, a high, piercing shriek. God, it sounded eerie, even on tape, even broadcast halfway around the world. But it didn't sound odd, for the Irish women of Belfast have been making the sound most every day since the troubles began in 1969. Usually...
Sands died at 8:17 p.m. EDT during the 66th day of his hunger strike, after having entered a coma the day before...
Sands, who lapsed into a coma Sunday, died at 1:17 a.m. Belfast time. (8:17 p.m. EDT.), with his family by his bedside...