This year Union Station's Bodies Revealed exhibit was the focal point of a controversy involving bloggers, religious officials, reporters and any shrill voice that could find its way to an online comments section. Now, four months too late for most of Kansas City to pay attention, a reasoned symposium on plastinated corpses -- with respected experts from impressive schools -- came together at the downtown library on Friday.After so many months of arguments, the changing official story about
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For more than five years, medical students from the University of Kansas Medical Center have put in long hours serving uninsured patients at their Jay Doc Free Clinic. Last year, a number of students and physicians involved in such efforts started a new group, Heartland Healthcare for All. Their aim is to push universal health care beyond the walls of their free clinics and into federal legislation that would leave no patient behind.With a new president preparing to take office, they're not wast
Embryogenesis doesn't mean you get to live off my dime, mammalian blastular welfare queens. Buckskinned mountain folk in the blasted frozen lands of North Dakota polished off their plates of buffalo entrails, reset their beaver traps, hitched up their leather breeches and declared that blastocysts are persons with all the rights pertaining thereto, dated this day February Stupidth, Two Thousand Stupid. Shouldn't they be more worried about the Hudson Bay Company actively destroying the fur tra
