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A hospital in Birmingham, England, came under fire in August for its attempts to defray the cost of an expensive sophisticated scanner by renting it out during downtime to local farmers, who used it to scan pigs’ bodies to assure that only the meatiest ones were allowed to breed.
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In September warrant officer Gregory S. Crandall was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery over the protests of his family. The Pentagon believes Crandall died in Laos in 1971, but the family continues to hope he survived, because the only part of his body recovered was a tooth. That tooth was placed alone in a full-size steel casket for the burial.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
