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THE COFFEE BREAK - Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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'Brain dead' patient found to be alive
A 21-year-old who was declared brain dead at a Texas
hospital was found to be alive some four hours later.
Zack Dunlap opened his eyes within five days of receiving a
severe head injury while riding an all-terrain vehicle
without a helmet and walked out of a rehab center to return
home 48 days after the November crash, NBC's "Today"
reported Monday. After the crash, Dunlap, of Oklahoma,
was airlifted to United Regional Healthcare System in
Wichita Falls, Texas, where doctors declared the 21-year-old
brain dead. "There was no activity at all. No blood flow
at all," Dunlap's father, Doug, said of the PET scan he was
shown by doctors. However, Dunlap's cousin, Dan Coffin, who
works as a nurse, decided to follow up on a hunch while a
hospital nurse was removing tubes from the patient. He dug
one of his fingernails in under one of his cousin's,
causing Zack Dunlap to yank his arm away and place it on
the other side of his body -- a sign of life. "We went
from the lowest possible moment to, 'Oh, my gosh, our son
is still alive!'" his mother told "Today." Dunlap said he
still suffers from memory and emotional problems related
to his injury but he looks forward to returning to his job
as a warehouse worker and regaining his driver's license.
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Gypsies move in near British official
A group of 64 gypsies who set up camp in a lot 200 yards
from the home of a British official said they moved in on
Easter to circumvent planning laws. The "family of
travelers" said they moved into the 2.5 acre site, which
they purchased last year, on Easter Sunday to avoid
interference from law enforcement officers while they were
on vacation, The Daily Mail reported Monday. The group
spent 48 hours erecting electricity cables, water supplies
and bases for mobile homes -- one for each of the
16 families in the group. "This has been a big rush job
and we purposely chose the Easter holiday weekend so that
we could get more done before anybody tried to stop us,"
said Tom Brazil, 30, a father of three. "There are 16
families here, each with up to three caravans, and we
banded together to buy the land 12 months ago," he said.
The site is only 200 yards from the country home of
Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell. "They have done a hell
of a lot in a short time. I am genuinely sympathetic to
people like them," said Jowell's estranged husband,
David Mills, 53, who lives permanently in the country
home. "We all need a place to live but, equally so, all
have to obey the planning laws."
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Gopher-hunt goes bad to fiery ending
A Calgary, Alberta, man fed up with a gopher infestation
accidentally started a weekend wildfire that caused more
than $200,000 in damages, firefighters said. Firefighters
from four municipalities scrambled to prevent the fire from
burning any houses Saturday, but Rocky View Assistant
Deputy Fire Chief Jim Pendergast said some barns, sheds
and vehicles were damaged or destroyed, the Calgary Herald
reported Monday. The province is undergoing an infestation
of gophers, and Pendergast said a group of people had used
a new system called the Rodenator on their property. The
system blasts oxygen and propane down the hole and then
creates explosions that collapse tunnels and kill the
rodents by concussion, the report said. "I have never
been to a fire started by this before," Pendergast said
Sunday. "We're not saying there's something wrong with the
device. But this is not an appropriate time to use it."
The fire consumed about a half mile of extremely dry
prairie grass, and Pendergast said the people targeting
gophers could face liability for losses and the $40,000
firefighting bill, the newspaper.
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"I think some ways the drinks are used is bad. I think
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before energy drinks and diet pills, what did kids use?
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