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"Three former students came in and videotaped everything that was written before it got demolished," said James Nakamoto, McKinley High's longtime theater director.
Aside from the marked girders, there won't be many noticeable changes in the auditorium when restoration work is completed, possibly in December.
The auditorium is housed in the school's historic administration or "A" building, which is being rebuilt from the inside.
Interior improvements will include air conditioning throughout the building and an improved sound system in the auditorium.
There will be no changes to the building's exterior.
She wants to continue treatments. But were they for real?
Only acupuncturist Michael Zucker knows for sure, and he can't say yet.
He's helping Amy V. Kindrick, physician and AIDS researcher, with an investigation to see if acupuncture can relieve chronic pain and numbness (polyneuropathy) in AIDS patients.
Kindrick began the project in September. It was one of the first approved for support from the Clinical Research Center at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.
She hopes for a total of 32 volunteers. So far, she's had nine, including Figueroa.
Half of the patients receive acupuncture while the others get fake treatments.
But drunken driving deaths rose on the Big Island and Kauai - as did traffic deaths overall on the neighbor islands.
Sgt. Clyde Yamashiro of the Honolulu police traffic division said harsher penalties for habitual DUI offenders contributed to the island's decrease in alcohol-related deaths. Last year 76 people died on Oahu roads, down from 86 in 1995.
Although 35 people were killed in autos last year, pedestrians accounted for more than a third of all traffic fatalities.
The attack occurred shortly before 3:01 a.m. in a ground-floor unit of Building B. Lt. Glenn Cuomo said detectives are looking for a male suspect in the attempted murder.
Cuomo said the occupants had been renting the unit for about a month.
Following the 2:48 p.m. call to police, the younger brother was taken to Kona Hospital and then flown to Queen's Hospital in Honolulu, where he was in serious condition.
The older brother was arrested for assault and terroristic threatening and is being held pending charges.
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