Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began to breathe on his own today as his doctors started the process of bringing him out of a medically induced coma, according to Hadassah Hospital officials. "This is a first sign of some sort of activity of his brain," said hospital director Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef. In addition, he said, Sharon's blood pressure and pulse were in the normal range, and he was not running a fever.

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