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To: arno who wrote (55834)	1/4/2007 10:35:21 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 57110

File under: things I don't think I really have to worry much about.

To: arno who wrote (55834)	1/4/2007 11:48:01 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 57110

Human kidney goes missing. Human kidney stolen from Bodies exhibit Story Published: Jan 3, 2007 at 9:32 PM PST Story Updated: Jan 4, 2007 at 7:06 AM PST By Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) - Seattle police are investigating the theft of a human kidney from a traveling science exhibit of preserved human corpses and body parts. A manager for "Bodies ... The Exhibition" called police December 30th to report someone had taken the kidney, which was displayed being held by a child. The 21 cadavers and 250 organs in the exhibit are injected with liquid silicon rubber to preserve them. The bodies are skinned, cut open and arranged in various poses to expose muscles and organs. The kidney was from an adult's body and is valued at one-thousand dollars. The exhibit has proven popular, but also has attracted some controversy. Critics in Seattle unsuccessfully sought to have the exhibit halted, arguing that the Chinese citizens whose bodies are in the displays never gave consent for their remains to be publicly shown. Premier Exhibitions Incorporated of Atlanta, which runs the exhibit, has said the cadavers are from people who died of natural causes, and whose bodies were unidentified or unclaimed before they were turned over to a medical school in China.