BBC: US man wakes from 19-year coma [09-Jul-03]
A man from the US state of Arkansas has regained consciousness after spending 19 years in a coma.
The world must seem so different to the one he left in 1984. Why, back then, everyone was talking about George Orwell, Eddie Murphy was a top US box office attraction, the majority of Americans didn't believe in evolution, and there was a bumbling Republican war-monger in the Oval Office.
