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To: average joe who wrote (7180)	12/7/2003 12:50:32 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 7720

Maybe that's why I'm such a slow thinker. There's almost always one or more cats in the house.

To: average joe who wrote (7180)	12/8/2003 5:48:07 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Speaking of pork, did you hear about the kuru epidemic? "Since the discovery of the kuru epidemic in New Guinea, a vast amount of knowledge has been gained concerning prion diseases. The specific dynamics of the kuru disease are important to realize in order to better understand all prion diseases. Scientists admit that there is still a lot of ground to cover in this area of research. Numerous questions have been answered, yet many puzzles still remain to be solved. A large amount of the work done in the name of understanding prion diseases was carried out by anthropologists in the field studying the Fore. Their contributions to this research have played an enormous role." Upon the death of an individual, the maternal kin were in charge of the dismemberment of the corpse. The women would remove the arms and feet, strip the limbs of muscle, remove the brains, and cut open the chest in order to remove internal organs. Lindenbaum states that kuru victims were highly regarded as sources of food, because the layer of fat on victims who died quickly resembled pork. Women also were known to feed morsels such as human brains and various parts of organs to their children and the elderly." as.ua.edu