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On April 17, sheriff’s deputies at the Daley Center decided to search not only visitors but also the people who work there and usually enter without inspection. Among the several dozen items confiscated were brass knuckles, tear gas, and a dagger. Some lawyers and judges saw what was going on and simply declined to enter until the inspection was over.
A February issue of the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York, described a local woman’s remarkable recovery from botulism paralysis at Park Ridge Hospital. After the toxin struck her in June 2000, she lay in a hospital bed, hearing everything around her but unable to communicate with anyone. Someone mentioned that the woman was an ardent fan of singer Celine Dion, and the hospital staff, hoping to speed her recovery, played the singer’s music in her room around the clock for weeks. The woman later described her joy when the paralysis left her and she was able to stop the music–she had never cared for Celine Dion.
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