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23 Feb 2010 10:48

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Offbeat: We’re breaking our AP boycott because this story is just too weird

  • Weird: Woman decides to get head cyrogenically frozen. Normal: The woman changes her mind and wants her body kept intact. Super-strange: The company in charge of doing it is putting up a huge legal fight to keep her head for some stupid reason. Alcor, BTW, is the company that played baseball with Ted Williams’ body parts.

26 Jul 2009 11:49

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World: How much can you make from selling a black-market kidney, anyway?

  • $10,000 the amount poor foreigners can make by selling one of their kidneys in third-world countries such as India source