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Reports: Exiled Tunisian President in Coma After Stroke
By not in system - AOL NewsOusted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia after suffering a stroke, according to reports out of France and Tunisia. "He had a stroke, and his condition is serious," an unidentified friend of Ben Ali told Agence France-Presse, which said the 74-year-old went into a coma two days ago. A spokesman for Tunisia's transitional government, who would neither confirm nor deny the report, told AFP that Ben Ali's health would be discussed later today during a Cabinet meeting. But French journalist Nicolas Beau reported that Ben Ali was checked into ...
Stepmom May Face Homicide Rap as Girl Dies After 6-Year Coma
By David Lohr - AOL NewsA 12-year-old California girl who was beaten into a vegetative state by her stepmother six years ago has died. The stepmother, who is serving time for child abuse, could now face homicide charges, according to a published report. Truly Lo, of Natomas, a neighborhood in northwestern Sacramento, was just 6 years old in 2004 when her stepmother, Weili Kao, beat and strangled her. The abuse was so severe that Truly sustained brain damage and fell into a coma. The girl's father, Thomas Lo, told The Sacramento Bee that doctors estimated Truly would only live for a day or two. Despite the dire ...
Is Denying Abstinence News Any Different From Denying Climate Change?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyIt's been a bloody week in the culture wars: First came the news that abstinence-only pregnancy-prevention programs may work a lot better than we thought. (Sometimes, I say "we" were wrong just to be polite, but this isn't one of those times; only last week I was on our colleague Bonnie Erbe's PBS show flapping my jaws in favor of the mixed-message approach and insisting that abstinence-only wasn't getting the job done. Live and learn, though; it's not like this is a theological debate, right?) A study of 662 6th and 7th graders published earlier this week in the Archives of Pediatric & ...
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