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Schiavo-like Woman in Recovery Miracle A severely brain-damaged Kansas woman who couldn't talk or feed herself after a car accident two years ago has inexplicably regained those abilities, confounding the predictions of doctors. Tracy Gaskill, 30, began speaking and swallowing about three weeks ago, family members and medical personnel told the Associated Press. Gaskill had suffered head trauma and internal injuries after her car rolled over on a highway in September 2002.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fate of a brain-damaged Florida woman went back to the courts early on Monday after President Bush (news - web sites) signed emergency legislation aimed at prolonging the life of Terri Schiavo. Bush signed the legislation at 1:11 a.m. (0611 GMT) after extraordinary intervention by lawmakers that drew Congress back from Easter recess and into a bitter family dispute as it tried to circumvent years of state court rulings. A federal judge in Tampa was considering early Monday morning whether to reinsert the feeding tube that had been removed from the 41-year-old woman Friday, CNN reported....

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate passed a bill that could prolong Terri Schiavo's life while a federal court considers her case while House Republicans, stymied by Democrats, scrambled to bring enough lawmakers back to the Capitol for an emergency vote early Monday. GOP leaders planned a House vote just past midnight, hours after the Senate approved the bill by voice vote. President Bush rushed back from his Texas for a chance to sign the measure. The plan had been for the House to act first and then the Senate to pass the House version. But with Democrats forcing a delay...

Per front page of Drudge **Exclusive Fri Mar 18 2005 00:50:07 ET** The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) has requested Terri Schiavo to testify before his congressional committee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In so doing it triggers legal or statutory protections for the witness, among those protections is that nothing can be done to cause harm or death to this individual.