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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 29, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 i ice body used to produce car Nufer Zed human of As Chicago a sixteen months ago a killer was executed in. Texas. Today his body is a teaching tool for the world made available on the internet As the first three dimensional computerized cadaver. The visible Man is a detailed Atlas of the body assembled digitally from thousands of a Ray magnetic and photo images of Cross sections of the cadaver. The National Library of Medicine unveiled the vis Ible Man on monday at the annual meeting of the radiological society of North America. This is the first time such detailed information about an entire human body has been compiled said or. Donald . Lindberg director of the Library which is the equivalent of the Library of Congress for medical  digitalized cadaver will be available free to anyone who gets permission from the Library. But the data Are so extensive that downloading them takes up to two weeks of uninterrupted time on the internet and up to 15 gigabytes of storage space enough to accommodate about 50 time the contents of the encyclopaedia Britannica. The information would fill More than 30 typical per Sonal computers and is expected to be sought mainly by medical schools and researchers said Michael Acker Man a computer specialist with the Library. The visible Man will be an immediate teaching tool for medical students and it could be used to develop surgery simulators much like the flight simulator used to train pilots he said. We hold this out As an example of the future of health care. Which More and More will become vis Ual rather than textual Ackerman said in an inter View. It s a whole different Way of looking at medi cine.". -.-., commercial ventures also Hope to capitalize on the visible Man Ackerman said. One idea is fantastic voyage the game based on the Isaac Asimov Book that was later made into a movie in which a group of scientists is miniaturized and injected into the blood Stream of a dying Man. The Library is spending $1.4 million to develop the visible Man and a visible woman which is still More than a year away said Victor Spitzer a computer image and anatomist at the University of Colorado health sciences Center in Denver where the imaging was done. The work began aug. 5,1993, several hours after Joseph Paul Jernigan 39, was executed by injection. The former Mechanic who had killed a 75-year-old manuring a burglary left his body to science. The body was frown to Colorado and underwent hours of cat and Fri scans. A. Then it was sawed into four pieces and each was fro zen in Gelatin. One at a time each piece was attache to a special table and slowly raised under a special planing tool called a cry microtome. The instrument designed especially for cutting Ca Davers shaved away Cross sections of the cadaver 1 Mil Limiter thick a total of 1,870 Cross sections from head to toe. Each newly exposed layer of cadaver was photographed and scanned into a computer by a digital camera. A. A " the digital photos were stacked and programmed into an imaging computer along with the data acquired from the cat and Fri  Anderson an associate professor of Anat omy and cell biology at the University of Illinois at Chi Cago College of Medicine said the project looks terrific  a. Fine visible Man probably will be most useful for surgeons and radiologists looking for new solutions tools problems he said adding that students May be overwhelmed with More information than they can. Handle " a Joseph Paul Jernigan who was executed in 1993, donated his body to science and experts have used it to create a three dimensional computerized cadaver. Retailer by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Pittsburgh a Pittsburgh Mer chant has pulled from his store shelves two birthday cards that make Light of . Simpson murder Case. There Are too Many other ways that retailer can make Money said Andre Young president and owner of the sincerely yours and Christmas elegance card and gift shops in Pittsburgh and the suburb of mount Lebanon. "o.j. Simpson has not been convicted of any crime at this particular Point Andi do not feel that we As responsible Citi Zens should make Money off the exploitation of a serious crime such As murder or any other violence that has been committed Young said. Officials for the distributor Recycle paper greetings of Chicago could not be reached , a pro football Hall of Famer and Abc sports broadcaster is on trial inthe june 12 fatal stabbings of his second former wife Nicole Brown Simpson anther Friend Ronald Goldman outside her Home in  cards which were created by Dif Ferent artists and sell for $1.65, arrive nov. 21 at the suburban sincerely yours store. Young said he had the cards pulled from display cases when an employee who reviews new merchandise brought them to his attention. One card displays the sentence i digit above a Mug shot of Simpson. Inside the card reads now that i have your at Tention. Happy  the other card says it s your birth Day and depicts Simpson running with a football in one hand and a microphone in the other. The message inside mentions a Sta Bulous time and several other references to the bloody killings Young said he did not see the cards before receiving them. Do Trot  How Renews Vic doctors say Kevorkian blocked Aid to woman Detroit a two doctors Sadr. Jack Kevorkian spurned their offers to help a woman before she killed herself to enc her pain a newspaper reports. One of Kevorkian s attorneys Geof Frey Fieger said the doctors weren tasked to help the woman because they were just seeking publicity the Detroit free press reported monday. The Doc tors denied the charge. Kevorkian was present saturday at the death of Margaret Garrish 72, who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis Coloni diverticulitis osteoporosis and other ail ments. Both her legs had been amputated and she had lost an Eye. It was the 21st death at which Kevorkian was present since 1990 and the first since nov. 22,1993. Or. John Nelson of traverse City,mich., and or. Pavan Grover of Houston said they offered to help Garrish after seeing a videotaped interview Between the woman and an attorney for Kevorkian. On the tape she says she is in so much pain that she is considering suicide. I m not saying that in Medicine we Havethe answers to everything Grover said. But if her main problem was  Don Tsee Why we could t have helped  parts of the tape were played on National television after Kevorkian and his attorneys released it in March. The Doc tors said they offered to visit Garrish at her Home where she died after inhaling Carbon monoxide saturday or to Fly her to their clinics but never received any  said that Nelson and Grove were among seven doctors who responded to the tape but that they were All in sincere. Oakland county medical examine Ljubisa Dragovic ruled Garrish s death a homicide saying she could not have killed herself without someone s help. Royal Oak police continued investigating the death sunday but declined to comment. Oakland county prosecutor Richard Thompson who has charged Kevorkian with murder in some previous deaths declined to comment until after police Complete their investigation. Kevorkian left a certification of medi cide form at Garrish s Home listing her diseases her diagnosis her prognosis anther family physician said Michael Schwartz another Kevorkian  was t at the House when police arrived. States eyeing anti alien proposition Nogales Ariz. A from Barren Little towns along Kip Grande Bottom land to booming cities in de Sert mountains americans along the mexican Border Are looking at Cali fornia s Tough new anti immigration Law with  observers had dismissed the popularity of proposition 187 in Cali fornia As mostly reflective of that state s particular problems a sagging Economy overburdened schools and overflowing Hospital emergency rooms. But recent interviews in Texas new Mexico and Arizona found plenty of non californians ready to blame Ille Gal immigrants for their assorted ills. Too Many people afe coming Maria Cadena said in her Nat Rve Span ish from behind the counter of he clothing shop in Fabens Texas a town a few Miles South of Elpaso witha population of 5,200. Too Many Are on  living along the 2,000-mile Border fear a crackdown on illegal scan Only Harden attitudes toward peo ple with Brown skin. Others fret that the mexican customers they depend on will Boycott .  whether they Are Liberal or conservative Well Oft or poor White Black or hispanic Many residents re sent their tax dollars being spent on the wrong people providing Wel fare food Stamps and other support to those they say Don t belong in the United  far no state has formally pro posed following California s Lead but proposition 187 advocates say they have had feelers from states along the mexican Border and from Florida. More important the anti immigrant movement seems headed for con  gov. Pete Wilson has suggested that Congress adopt a fed eral version of proposition 187, and such key republicans As .  Smith of Texas and sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming say they will in clude Many of the California ideas in sweeping Reform measures they will introduce in january  
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