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...unconscious with critical head trauma when transported to the hospital by ambulance, said Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Peggy McNamara...
...wretched list of people failed the Princess of Wales on that terrible night in August: reckless paparazzi [WORLD, Oct. 13], a driver impaired by drugs and alcohol, an ineffectual bodyguard. But most shameful was the slow trip to the hospital when every second counted in getting Diana to a trauma center; she was deprived of a last chance for survival. PATRICIA JOERGER Rochester...
Demographics show, furthermore, that the cognitive and moral abilities of juvenile delinquents are disproportionately impaired by drug addiction, gang-mentality, developmental delays, mental illness, moral ambiguity, socialization in a culture of violence and psychological trauma often stemming from abuse or neglect. The story of the 15-year old New Jersey teenager charged with sexually assaulting and strangling an 11-year old neighbor boy is all too common: sexually assaulted by a pedophile, the teenager turned around and inflicted harm on someone even more helpless than himself...
...came of age not in Kabul or Luanda or any other of a number of cities where the trauma of war would have given impetus to her quest to eradicate the legacies of the battlefield. Rather, Jody Williams spent much of her life in the serene, clapboard-church-dotted hamlet of Putney, Vt., where, last Friday, the day after her 47th birthday, she received word that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
...hour later, Meshal began to feel ill. He checked into a hospital, vomiting, dizzy and with breathing problems that necessitated a respirator. When local doctors could not determine the cause of his trauma, Jordanian officials began to suspect what was in fact the truth: the two men weren't tourists at all, nor were they Canadians; they were agents of Israel's spy agency Mossad, dispatched to Amman to assassinate Meshal by contaminating him with a chemical agent, apparently in retaliation for suicide bombings in Jerusalem in July and September that had taken the lives of 21 Israelis...