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Because with the appearance Thursday of the literal and figurative "cadaver dogs" - including Bob Barr, who became the first member of Congress to call for Condit's resignation - the "Search for Chandra" finally reached the point where Gary Condit is at its bitter center.
Even so, we would still have to quit the sun's neighborhood before it begins its final death throes. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, the fiery orb will collapse upon itself like a giant souffle, only to see its internal furnace briefly restoked in several last gasps. These will swell...
It was miraculous enough in early 1999 when doctors in Louisville, Ky., transplanted a left hand from a fresh cadaver to Matthew David Scott, then 37, who had lost his own hand in a fireworks accident 13 years earlier. The surgery--an exacting task that required joining dozens of nerves...
In April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein died of a burst aneurysm in the abdominal aorta, Dr. Harvey veered just a bit from protocol by making a circular incision in the great man's...
For those interested in facing mortality head-on, there are few better routes to grisly self-discovery than medical school. Unfortunately, according to a report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, at least one commonly-used teaching technique may compromise young doctors' ability to see their patients as...