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...whole new kind of pain came last week, when Tilden learned of the arrest of Henry Reid, the director of the UCLA willed-body program, and Ernest Nelson, a former mortuary worker. Reid was arrested on suspicion of grand theft, and is thought to have illegally sold body parts for profit from some 500 cadavers in the UCLA cooler--Kim's possibly among them--to Nelson, who was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property. Nelson, who used a power saw to dismember the bodies, says he paid $700,000 for the parts and received fees to transfer them...
Everyone involved in the UCLA scandal was pointing fingers at everyone else, with UCLA saying it had known nothing of what Nelson and Reid were up to and the families of the donors filing suit against the university. Much more troubling was the impact the case could have--not on bodies already gone but on ones still to be pledged by living donors, who may now wonder if their largesse is such a good idea. "There's nothing more toxic to public altruism than this kind of scam," says Art Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics...
Despite the apparent resolution, students like Markman and Reid said they still plan to switch to a new service...
...definitely switching to Verizon. I am going to pay the cancellation fees,” Reid said...
...test calls, and the test calls didn’t work. They said that if a lot of students were reporting the problem, then a technician would be sent out,” said Reid. “When I asked them what I should do in the meantime, they told me that I should walk five to ten miles and see if the problem persists...