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Anatomy is the study of how living things--plants, animals, and people
are built. The word comes from the Greek word, anatome, meaning ``to
cut up.''
Dissecting, or cutting apart, dead human bodies was a crime in ancient
times. In the 1st century a.d., Galen, a Greek doctor, dissected animals
to study their parts. His writings on anatomy remained important until
the 1400s. ...
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Study break: when advice goes awry
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;
April 9, 2007 ;
Joe Vulopas;
701 words
...Study: Kids getting bombarded with food ads Broccoli, 0 ... Apples...several studies released this month. We are living in the "study" age, a result of technology, data and a hidden desire for...husbands help with housework? It's true, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health. ...
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AN AMAZING EXHIBIT WITH OVER 200 ACTUAL HUMAN BODIES, SPECIMENS OPENS MAY...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
May 2, 2006 ;
301 words
......tune with our bodies. The unique method used to preserve the human bodies is called plastination. Plastination involves a vacuum process...Plastinate specimens are completely dry and odorless. The human bodies in THE UNIVERSE WITHIN Exhibition were donated to the Museum...
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Elderly Chinese visitors admire dead human bodies, skinned and...
Getty Images;
October 15, 2007 ;
STR;
98 words
...STR Getty Images 10-15-2007 Elderly Chinese visitors admire dead human bodies, skinned and... Full Size JPG (1501 KB) Elderly Chinese visitors admire dead human bodies, skinned and dissected, muscles, tendons and organs in full view, at...
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Human bodies display.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);
August 7, 2004 ;
127 words
...The organiser of a new exhibition featuring more than a dozen whole and partially dissected human bodies yesterday said it has legitimate scientific merit and is not simply a sideshow . Organiser Dr Roy Glover said the new display...
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Exhibit features dead human bodies: Controversial exhibit intends to teach...
Charleston Daily Mail;
July 2, 2004 ;
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS;
417 words
......for use in "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," which makes its U.S. debut today at the California Science...fascinated until she discovered the exhibit featured real human bodies. She quickly saw a conflict between her religious and scientific...
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SA: Two human bodies found on Strathalybyn farm
AAP General News (Australia);
December 6, 2000 ;
100 words
...AAP General News (Australia) 12-06-2000 SA: Two human bodies found on Strathalybyn farm ADELAIDE, Dec 6 AAP - The bodies of two people have been found on a farm at Strathalbyn, south-east...
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American Premiere of Gunther von Hagens' 'BODY WORLDS: The Anatomical...
PR Newswire;
June 28, 2004 ;
787 words
......WORLDS: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies, a first-of-its-kind exhibit in which...physiology and health by viewing real human bodies, preserved through an extraordinary...textbooks. Ultimately, the use of real human bodies inspires new respect for the body and...
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Exhibit of Human Bodies Debuts in L.A.
AP Online;
July 4, 2004 ;
KRISTIE A. MARTINEZ, Associated Press Writer;
614 words
......Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," opens Friday. (AP Photo/Ric Francis...Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," which makes its U.S. debut Friday...discovered the exhibit featured real human bodies. She quickly saw a conflict between...
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Polish Study Confirms Nazis Made Soap from Human Bodies.
Israel Faxx;
October 11, 2006 ;
234 words
......the bodies of concentration camp prisoners to make soap, a study carried out by Poland's National Remembrance Institute (IPN...of a doubt, soap was produced using substances obtained from human bodies at the anatomical institute of the Medical Academy of Danzig...
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Only 2 weekends left to see 'Body Worlds': Franklin Institute display of...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);
April 14, 2006 ;
148 words
...Byline: Peter Mucha Apr. 14--Only two weekends remain to see Body Worlds, the provocatively eye-opening exhibit of preserved human bodies and organs at the Franklin Institute. With corpses posed in all sorts of positions, the displays are bizarre, even grotesque...
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Weight Loss Shown in Preliminary Study Data With MERIDIA(R) and A Meal...
PR Newswire;
October 8, 2001 ;
787 words
...Study's Preliminary Phase Shows an Average Weight Loss of 9.8 Percent...ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Early results from a study presented today at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) show a combination of MERIDIA(R) (sibutramine...
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Exhibit With Human Bodies Debuts in L.A.
AP Online;
July 2, 2004 ;
KRISTIE A. MARTINEZ, Associated Press Writer;
570 words
......for use in "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," which makes its U.S. debut Friday at the California Science...fascinated until she discovered the exhibit featured real human bodies. She quickly saw a conflict between her religious and scientific...
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Body conscious. (human bodies on exhibition)(Brief Article)
U.S. News & World Report;
November 24, 1997 ;
Collcutt, Deborah;
197 words
......recently opened to unprecedented crowds--and controversy--at a museum in Mannheim, Germany. At the center of the debate are 30 human bodies and an anatomist, Guenther von Hagens, who has developed a new method of embalming organs, muscles, veins, and other tissue...
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One of the human specimens on display in the "Bodies Worlds 2:The...
KRT Photos;
April 7, 2005 ;
HANDOUT;
184 words
......BEACON JOURNAL (April 15) One of the human specimens on display in the "Bodies Worlds 2:The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies", at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The bodies were preserved through a unique method called plastination...
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S.Korea hands over DPRK human bodies
Xinhua News Agency;
October 28, 2002 ;
125 words
...S.Korea hands over DPRK human bodies SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Korean National Red Cross (KNRC) of South Korea said Monday that it has handed over the bodies of...
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