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New kids' organs scandal hits the NHS
London :: United Kingdom | 16 days ago
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A TOP NHS hospital trust kept hundreds of dead people's brains and other vital organs without relatives' permission, a Sun investigation reveals. Organs some belonging to children have been stored for up to 20 years without families being told. Guy's
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Man charged in ricin-laced letter to President Barack Obama had lived in Leeds
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | 1 month ago
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The Elvis impersonator from Mississippi, charged this week in connection with ricin-laced letters mailed to President Barack Obama and others, had lived in Leeds at least part of the time during the past three or four years. During that time he's had
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Body Integrity Identity Disorder
New Haven :: CT :: USA | 1 month ago
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Apr 16 2013 Imagine that one of your limbs did not feel as if it belonged to you or was a natural part of your body. In a weird way the extra limb makes you feel incomplete, less than your whole self. The limb functions, you can feel it, and its
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Hilary Mantel: Royal Bodies
Cleves :: Germany | 3 months ago
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Royal Bodies Hilary Mantel Last summer at the festival in Hay-on-Wye, I was asked to name a famous person and choose a book to give them. I hate the leaden repetitiveness of these little quizzes: who would be the guests at your ideal dinner party,
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Families of 19th century thieves and murderers demand skulls and body parts are returned
Turin :: Italy | 3 months ago
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The macabre display at a museum in Turin, Italy, is the result of 19th-century physician and psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso's research on criminality. Many of the body parts were taken from prisons without the permission of family members. Inside the
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How to build a bionic man | Corrinne Burns
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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A television company asked Dr Bertolt Meyer who has a prosthetic arm to rebuild himself in bionic form. Photograph: Channel Four He cuts a dashing figure, this gentleman: nearly seven feet tall, and possessed of a pair of striking brown eyes. With a
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From butts to bosoms: Why do we obsess over female body parts?
Toronto :: Canada | 6 months ago
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I didn't start my week thinking about Streisand's hands, but, somewhere around Wednesday, that's what I was doing, pondering their possible importance along with that of Kim Kardashian's bubble butt. (All I can say is that this column can take you to
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Graves robbed in Benin's capital
Porto Novo :: Benin | 6 months ago
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More than 100 graves have been desecrated in a cemetery near Benin's capital, Porto-Novo, police say. The grave robbers cut the heads off the bodies and also stole some internal organs. The BBC's Vincent Nnanna in Benin says there is a suspicion the
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Defense: Man 'exploded' in rage before killing, dismembering wife
Palm Springs :: CA :: USA | 6 months ago
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But the ups and downs of the relationship took their toll on a Rancho Santa Margarita man who "exploded" the night "he struck his wife in a heat of passion" with a one-pound nightstand figurine, not realizing he was hitting her head, the man's
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Solved after 70 years: The mystery of the missing Lancaster bomber crew
Mannheim :: Germany | 8 months ago
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Fewer than half the aircraft were heading for various factories in and around Mannheim some 40 miles south of Frankfurt. Bone's Lancaster, however, was part of the larger element heading more than 200 miles further east to the Czech brewing town of
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