Janis Thompson, 21, a North Dakota State...
Janis Thompson, 21, a North Dakota State cheerleader who was to have been honored by the National Cheerleading Assn. at a football game Saturday, was declared brain dead Friday after falling from atop a human pyramid during practice Wednesday.
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