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To: lurqer who wrote (39331)	3/12/2004 12:06:43 AM
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Donated Bodies Used in Land Mine Tests Tulane University has suspended its dealings with a distributor of donated bodies after finding out seven cadavers had been sold to the Army and blown up in Texas to test protective footwear against land mines. The bodies, which were donated to Tulane's medical school, were given to the National Anatomical Service, a Staten Island company, for distribution because the university had more than it needed. The company sold them to the Army more than a year ago for $25,000 to $30,000, said Chuck Dasey, a spokesman for the Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command in Fort Detrick, Md. In early 2003, when Tulane found out about the tests, it asked the company to never again allow its cadavers to be used for anything but medical and educational purposes. This month, the university suspended its contract with the service after published reports about the incident, said Mary Bitner Anderson, co-director of the Tulane School of Medicine's Willed Body Program. The market in bodies and body parts is under scrutiny after two men, including the head of the Willed Body Program at the University of California, Los Angeles, were charged with trafficking in stolen body parts. nytimes.com lurqer