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body stories: 17 news summaries

India Won't Hand Over
Mother Teresa's Remains

Nuns from her charity call Albanian request 'absurd'

Oct 14, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mother Teresa isn’t going anywhere, say Indian authorities. Teresa’s parents were from Albania, and the country had requested her remains. Macedonia, where Teresa grew up, may also want the body ahead of the 100th anniversary of her birth next year. “Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and... More »

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India • Albania • Macedonia • body • Mother Teresa • Calcutta

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Student Named as Suspect in Yale Homicide

Has defensive wounds, failed polygraph test; may not be fellow Yalie

Sep 14, 09 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police have a suspect in the slaying of a Yale graduate student: another student—not necessarily enrolled at Yale—who bears defensive wounds and failed a polygraph test, MSNBC reports. An autopsy performed today confirmed that the body found yesterday is Annie Le's. Police have turned their focus to finding... More »

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murder • New Haven • body • student • suspect • Yale • manhunt • police search • Annie Le

(Newser) - A humorous glossary, or lexicon of despair? Labels used to describe women's bodies at a certain age "can seem as offensive as teenage behaviour, prompting a need for strict control," Sarah Hampson writes in the Globe & Mail:
  • The Bitch Wrinkle: "Also known as Chapter
... More »

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women • body • lexicon

 Ill. Remains 
 Not Stacy 
 Peterson 

Body confirmed to be male

May 28, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The body found last week near a river in suburban Chicago has been identified as male, the Tribune reports. The discovery confirms the remains are not those of Stacy Peterson or another missing area woman. “We’re disappointed,” said a spokesperson for the family of Peterson, who’s... More »

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murder • body • remains • Stacy Peterson • Drew Peterson • missing person

Woman Stashes Mom's Body
in Freezer for
20 Years

Daughter feared immigration inquiry

May 27, 09 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - A London woman hid her dead mother’s body in a freezer for two decades, apparently out of fear of immigration authorities, reports the Daily Mirror. The daughter, now 83, was worried that if the public knew her mother had died, officials would find out she’d been in the... More »

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immigration • London • illegal immigrant • corpse • body • Britain • Daulat Irani • freezer

(Newser) - An autopsy was performed today on a boy found buried in a public playground in Albuquerque, NM, but he remains unidentified, KOB.com reports. About 50 investigators are canvassing the area around Alvarado Park to identify the 3- to 5-year-old or a suspect. A mother taking her own kids to... More »

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crime • police • body • Albuquerque • fatality

Families of Missing Want 'Stew Maker' to Help

Man who dissolved bodies may be able to identify kidnap, murder victims

Feb 9, 09 2:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Families with loved ones missing in Mexico are hoping that "the stew maker" can give them closure, the Los Angeles Times reports. A day after the arrest of Santiago Meza Lopez—who confessed to dissolving at least 300 bodies for drug cartels—dozens of people lobbied Tijuana police... More »

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Mexico • corpse • violence • Mexican drug war • Tijuana • body • drug cartel • missing person

UPDATED

 Body Tentatively ID'd as Caylee 

Authorities tentatively ID remains as those of missing 3-year-old

Dec 12, 08 4:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Investigators in Florida believe a body discovered yesterday is that of missing toddler Caylee Anthony, a lawyer for her mother told a judge today. The corpse recovered near the Orlando home of her grandparents has been “tentatively indentified” as hers, based on hair color and other physical evidence, CNN... More »

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Florida • body • missing child • forensics • court cases • Casey Anthony • Caylee Anthony

Caylee Clues Found in
Home Search

Grandparents' house linked to body found nearby yesterday

Dec 12, 08 9:34 AM CST
(Newser) - After searching the home of Caylee Anthony’s grandparents last night, investigators say they “absolutely” found something of interest, CNN reports. The medical examiner linked the remains of a young child found yesterday in the area to the house where the 3-year-old lived with her grandparents and her mom,... More »

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investigation • crime • murder • body • missing child • Casey Anthony • Caylee Anthony • Cindy Anthony


 Abdul Stalker 
 Found Dead 
 Outside House 

Police have had to deal with woman before, suspect suicide

Nov 12, 08 9:26 AM CST
(Newser) - A suspected stalker was found dead of a possible drug overdose or suicide outside Paula Abdul’s house last night, TMZ reports. The woman, whose parents tipped police off that she may be at Abdul’s house, had Paula stickers hanging from the mirror of the car police found her... More »

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American Idol • suicide • stalker • celebrity • overdose • body • Paula Abdul • Paula Goodspeed

'Wonder Woman' Finds Body
in Potomac

Not such an
ordinary day for
superhero actress

Jun 7, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lynda "Wonder Woman" Carter didn't need super powers to make a surprising—and gruesome—discovery in Washington this week. She was rowing alone on the Potomac River when she spotted a woman's body. She said she "did what anyone would have done"—and yelled to nearby fishermen... More »

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Washington DC • body • Lynda Carter • super hero

 Computer Brainiac
 Guilty of Wife's Murder 

'Geek defense' didn't work

Apr 29, 08 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - A brilliant California computer programmer was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife yesterday—despite the fact that her body was never found. "I've been the best father that I know how," shouted Hans Reiser, 44, after the verdict, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. His wife's blood was... More »

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murder • body • Linux • Hans Reiser • Nina Reiser • Paul Hora • guilty verdict • William DuBois • Namesys

Your Body Really Is a Wonderland

Ten things we're betting you didn't know about that fascinating bag of bones

Oct 19, 07 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Our bodies may be just organ-filled sacks of chemicals and genes, but their workings are marvelous—and occasionally gross. LiveScience shares 10 of the body's best mysteries:
  1. Your skin has four colors
  2. Your brain automatically responds when someone else laughs, cries, sneezes, or yawns
  3. Our bigger brains have crowded
... More »

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health • list • body

Police Launch New Search
for Maddy

Bloody footprint discovered
 outside bedroom

Oct 15, 07 3:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investigators are launching a fresh, extensive search for missing toddler Madeleine McCann, London newspapers are reporting. The search will focus within a 9-mile radius of the Portuguese resort where the toddler disappeared on vacation, including coastline, isolated villas, forests and a reservoir. Police have also revealed they discovered evidence... More »

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cell phones • Madeleine McCann • Portugal • body • Gerry McCann • Kate McCann • search • searchers

Some Sarkozy Lost in Translation

Photo altered to reduce president's love handles

Aug 22, 07 8:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - The French president’s “love handles” got a makeover this week when Paris Match Photoshopped them down to size in pics from his US holiday. An otherwise manly bare-chested shot of Sarkozy canoeing with his son shows his stomach to be distinctly slimmer than in Reuter’s original photo.... More »

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New Hampshire • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Paris Match • Lake Winnipesaukee • body • Photoshop

Why Fat
is Phat

The body's most maligned cells are actually critically valuable players

Aug 7, 07 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fat is underappreciated, New York Times health columnist Natalie Angier writes: just because a lot of people now have too much of it doesn't mean it should be villified. The fat cell is in fact a marvel of science, a sophisticated mechanism finely tailored not only for energy storage but... More »

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obesity • evolution • health • fat • cells • body

No Tired Explanation: Yawning May Cool Brain

Evolutionary adaptation keeps the nervous system's motherboard cool

Jul 30, 07 5:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Yawning may be less a response to boredom than a natural mechanism for cooling off overheated brains, new research says. The human brain operates optimally when cool, much like a computer, and conditions like fatigue actually cause the organ to heat up, ABC News reports. A quick gulp of air... More »

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brain • research • yawning • body • human • fatigue

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