Sunday, October 7, 2007

Top News (for 9/28)

The news story I found intriguing was the opening of the Body Worlds exhibit in the Tech Museum.

This exhibit is controversial and bizarre, as it uses real human bodies to depict healthy body parts versus ones infected with diseases, cancers, and other teratogenic factors.

It has currency and timeliness, because this exhibit opened very recently.

It has proximity, because it affects people in San Jose, and the Bay Area in general.

It has prominence, because the Tech Museum is very famous in this area.

It conflicts with peoples' ideas about whether it is morally acceptable to display dead human bodies.

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