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...cartoons--when the beeper goes off. It is 2:55 a.m. Marilyn Yopp, a police detectives' secretary in Jacksonville, N.C., suffers from thymoma, a rare cancer. She was admitted to the oncology floor recently with an even rarer symptom, a disfiguring full-body rash that, her sister Doris Del Castilho explains, "started as tiny flakes of skin and then got bigger and opened up like a flower." A few minutes ago, she asked Del Castilho to help her turn over in bed, when suddenly "her eyes rolled up. I heard them say, 'I don't get a heartbeat...
...Baker arrives, CPR is still going on; the code team has shoved a tube down Marilyn's throat to pump air into her lungs. Baker prays with Del Castilho as the doctors push epinephrine and atropine through an IV. Briefly, there seems hope of stabilization, and Yopp is wheeled to the medical ICU. But two hours later, after multiple IV infusions, resident Timm Dickfeld takes one last turn at CPR, punishing Yopp's chest almost savagely, then stops. "Call the code," says someone. "Call it." Dickfeld finally accedes. "Over," he says. He makes a chopping gesture. Yopp is dead...
...Father, be with us in this time of loss," says Baker, standing at the head of a cluttered table, his hands joined with those of Del Castilho, Yopp's husband Horace, the couple's daughter Lora Marshburn and son Trey. "Help us as a family to feel your presence near to us. Paul said God never places more on us than we can bear. Help us to be each other's strength, and to support each other during this time of hurting. Help us to know that...
Members of the audience, which filled Sanders, were dressed in duct tape garb, threw paper airplanes and chanted phrases such as "Ig, Ig, Ig," at various moments throughout the evening. An operetta titled "La Forza del Duct Tape" was performed in three parts...
...measure, sponsored by Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-Del.), is named "The Collegiate Initiative To Reduce Binge Drinking Resolution" and calls for the formation of a task force of administrators, faculty, students and others to examine student life and to make recommendations to reduce alcohol and drug-related problems...