Word: forensice
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THE NINE SKELETONS DUG UP LAST YEAR FROM A PIT NEAR Yekaterinburg, Russia, were not just any old bones: they were believed to be the remains of the murdered Czar Nicholas II and his family. If that were true, scientific examination of the remains could solve some of the mysteries...
Starrs, a professor of forensic sciences at George Washington University, is one of a growing -- and controversial -- group of graveyard detectives. Listening with the ears of high-tech equipment, they try to hear the tales that dead men tell -- stories that could settle age-old mysteries and even solve crimes...
But digging up the past, even in the name of science, angers people who view tombs as inviolate resting places. University of Minnesota bioethicist Arthur Caplan is worried that the "Peeping Toms of forensics" are out of control. "If we don't want to devalue the past," he says, "then...
That precedent causes some to clamor for the exhumation of John F. Kennedy. Most forensic scientists, however, agree that digging up Kennedy could shed light on only a few minor mysteries, such as the fate of the President's brain. It was removed during the autopsy, but it may have...
Even without J.F.K., there are enough famous bodies to keep Starrs and others shoveling indefinitely. Clyde Snow, a forensic anthropologist who helped identify the remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, recently uncovered a pair of bodies in Bolivia. He and his team hope to prove they are the remains...