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According to an April story in the New York Daily News, a former assistant to Dr. Thomas Fahey has accused the prominent cancer surgeon of loaning out blood samples from the late Terrence Cardinal Cooke of New York City, who died in 1983 of leukemia, so that Catholic parishioners could pray over them as saintly relics. The assistant, who had been dismissed by Fahey, was being deposed in a lawsuit when he made the allegation. The New York archdiocese said it had not authorized the surgeon to dispense the cardinal’s blood.
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“Body Worlds,” an exhibit by anatomist Gunther von Hagens, opened in Berlin this past February, featuring about 200 unatrophied body parts and skinless dismembered corpses that had been arranged in various designs and gaudily displayed with superpreservatives to highlight every vein and sinew. The process, which von Hagens calls “plastination,” is supposed to reveal “the beautiful interior of the body.” Among the more startling pieces is the corpse of a woman five months pregnant, whose cross-sectioned abdomen reveals a curled-up fetus and dark smoker’s lungs.
International ice-golf champion Annika Oestberg of Denmark successfully defended her title in April at the annual tournament on Uummannaq Fjord, Greenland. She defeated 35 challengers and beat her runner-up, Tom Ferrell of the U.S., by ten strokes.
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