| Technology ... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. | ||
Sir Charles Percy Snow, New York Times, Mar 15, 1971 |
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FEATURE-LENGTH ARTICLES
| Look What They've Done to My Head: Los Angeles Times, Jun 3, 2004 |
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| You never know where you'll turn up next. | ||
| Harvest Time: Associated Press, Aug 28, 2002 |
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| When the heart stops first, plans can turn for the worse. | ||
| To Science the Spoils: The Guardian (London), Aug 30, 2002 |
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| Donating your body to science? Londoners offer their opinions. | ||
| Down on the Farm: New York Times Magazine, Dec 3, 2000 |
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| On a one-of-a-kind farm in Tennessee, bodies grow ripe in the Southern sun. | ||
| Life After Death: Los Angeles Times, Feb 10, 1997 |
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| Doctor is powerless to pull the plug on cadaver occupying bed in critical-care unit. | ||
| Drinks are On the House: Los Angeles Times, Jun 11, 1998 |
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| Alcoholism counselors grow too fond of aversion therapy. | ||
| Blunder Drug: Los Angeles Times, Jun 10, 1998 |
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| Popular impotence cure Viagra leaves some users a little stiffer than expected. | ||
| As I Lay Dying: Associated Press, May 18, 1998 |
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| A Chicago hospital adheres to its Hypocritic Oath. | ||
| The "Great Northern Anatomist": Dr. Richard Gordon, Great Medical Disasters, 1983 |
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| Meet Dr. Robert Liston inventor, horseman & gentleman butcher. | ||
| All That Glitters: Knight-Ridder, Oct 19, 1987 |
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| Unwitting scrapmen find discarded irradiation machine. | ||
| Head First Into the Future: Elizabeth Sanger, Newsday, Jan 31, 1988 |
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| Dip your head in liquid nitrogen and live forever. | ||
NEWS NUGGETS
| Blast!: Reuters, Aug 23, 2003 |
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| Rocket ship goes everywhere but up on launch. | ||
| Dead Wrong: Associated Press, Feb 8, 2002 |
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| Mistaken paramedics dispose of live baby. | ||
| Dead Wrong Again: Associated Press, Feb 12, 2002 |
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| Mistaken paramedics dispose of live granny. | ||
| A Hairy Operation: Associated Press, Aug 21, 1999 |
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| Doctors remove giant hairball from hairdressing student. | ||
| Welcome to My Nightmare: Philadelphia Inquirer, Apr 23, 1999 |
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| Doctor attempting to cheat death gets life. | ||
| Take My Leg, Please!: Associated Press, Sep 19, 1998 |
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| Why amputation fantasies never live up to reality. | ||
| Sure-Fire Cancer Cure: United Press International, May 20, 1987 |
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| Cancer patient is hit with 2800 pounds of cure. | ||
| These Lips are Sealed: Reuters, June 2, 1994 |
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| Lounge singer attempts to trade potbelly for plump penis. | ||
| A Fatal Thirst for Knowledge: New York Times, May 21, 1924 |
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| Occultist takes the ultimate test. | ||
| Teacher's Pet: Panati's Extraordinary Endings..., 1989 |
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| Student injects self with syphillis before an audience. | ||
| A Lesson From Nurse Manners: Associated Press, Mar 7, 1984 |
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| Always be polite on the phone or else. |
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