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THE market in body tissue in the US is believed to be worth more than $500 million (£288 million) a year. (snip) Heart valves are said to fetch up to $7,000 each in the US, and skin $1,000 per square foot. A body could be worth about $150,000, according to Art Caplan, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. (snip) In some cases people in charge of willed-body programmes have profited illegally. In 2002 Allen Tyler, the head of the cadaver programme at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, pleaded guilty to 66 counts of illegal mutilation....

Wayne Galley sings for a life By ARRISSIA OWEN TURNER Wayne Galley sounds tired. He's not pooped because of late nights awake with his 2-month old newborn baby. He is emotionally exhausted because one hour before our phone conversation, the Florida appeals court laid down a ruling all but securing what Galley calls "murder." On the other end of the receiver, the Big Bear resident and musician is in Florida on a mission, despite the devastating blow to the parents of Theresa Schindler Schiavo, the disabled woman who goes by Terri, whose life hinges on men in black robes upholding...

DUmmies claiming Confederate Battle Flag as their "resistance" symbol, just to "f**k with conservative southerner's heads". http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2599383