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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
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Subject: Old corpses in the news
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Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 13:37:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  5 13:37:17 1984
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	I completely agree with those who object to the printing of the picture
of the frozen corpse of the man from the Franklin expedition. It was bad
enough to be confronted with it in the Boston Globe; then I read Newsweek, 
and there he was again, glossy and in 'livid' color!
	It is true that the remains of Franklin's men are of scientific 
interest, but the story would have been just as well told without pictures. 
If the corpses were "almost perfectly preserved", the writer's word is good 
enough for me; I don't need to see the evidence!