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A native of Argentina, Eisenberg pursued medical studies at a time when women went to school only until about age 12 unless training for a "practical" career such as teaching. Eisenberg's parents supported the career choice, but distant relatives and close friends chastised her, saying she would "have trouble...

Author: By Molly Hennessey-fiske, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ex-Med School Dean Defends Human Rights | 9/25/1997 | See Source »

It was murder, all right. not much doubt about that anymore. Not after the CT-scan boys at Johns Hopkins got through with the cadaver. Severe blow to the skull with a blunt instrument. Massive internal bleeding. Maybe drugged first. Victim was a female Native American. Probably 12 to 14...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CASE OF THE INCA MAID | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

Nauman is good at a particular sort of put-on, a sour clownishness. He makes art so dumb that you can't guess whether its dumbness is genuine or feigned. When you see his spiral neon piece The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, you assume it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEING A NUISANCE | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

The zine's primary focus on raunchy sex, however, undermines this melodramatic tone. Here, too, the writing is uneven. The first piece is entitled "Stiff" and relates how a college student is overcome with attraction for a cadaver in the bio lab and indulges in necrophilia. Knowing the area above...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: Neigh, Neigh, Nanette | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

But Stern's infamous specialty is mean-spirited, horrendously tasteless, occasionally racist lampoons. It's he, not Limbaugh, who uses outrageous put- downs and salty language, right? Such as calling a former U.S. Senator "Alan ('the Cadaver') Cranston" and Perot "a hand grenade with a bad haircut." It's Stern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Mouths | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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