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In March a widower filed suit against Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, alleging that its mortuary science program used bodies from a local funeral home for embalming practice without permission of the deceased persons’ families….And in February an internal audit revealed that since 1950 Greenlane Hospital, the premier heart-research facility in New Zealand, had taken the hearts from at least 1,350 dead fetuses and infants without consulting the families.

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In March, Derrick A. Cobb of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was charged with tricking teenage girls into removing their socks so he could run off with them….And a month later David William Christensen of Denver was charged with harassing three women by leaving them Keds shoes with sexually explicit messages written on them.

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