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April 22, 1997
Seminar Reports on
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
The Dead Do Tell Tales Colonial-Era Burial Project Provides Current Research Cohort By Carla Garnett
Of necessity, the approach is modern, clinical and, arguably, cold. Numbers --
not even names like John and Jane Doe -- are assigned. That
would be too impractical, for there are 427 skeletons of
unknown corpses being examined and analyzed in the African
Burial Ground Project at Howard University. Frequently,
however, in the course of the 9-year project begun in 1992,
the evidence itself introduces emotional and spiritual
elements that undermine any effort to keep a purely
scientific face on the proceedings.
Taste and Smell Loss: By Sophia Glezos
A reduced, distorted, or lost sense of taste or smell signifies much
more than a weakened zest for food -- one of humankind's greatest
sources of pleasure and comfort. These deficits represent serious
risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and other illnesses
that require adherence to specific dietary regimens. Changes in
these senses can also lower immunity to disease, contribute to
digestive disorders, cause food poisoning, or produce toxic effects
of environmentally hazardous chemicals that are otherwise
detectable.
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