The magazine obtained a letter marked December 2001 in which one of von Hagen's Chinese plastinators, Dr. Hongjin, boasted that he had just obtained the bodies of a “young man and young woman” who had “died” that same morning.

The antiamnesty fringe will be pleased with itself, but it won’t be an America the rest of us will want to brag about.

Universism is a modern rational religious philosophy that began in 2003 with princples laid out by Ford Vox. Universists choose their beliefs according to the dictates of their own life experience and reason.

In other words, polygamous societies differ markedly with regards to allowing kin, especially sisters, to become co-wives. Sororal polygamy is practised in some societies because it is believed to foster greater cohesiveness among co-wives sharing values and norms, whereas it is specifically forbidden in other polygamous societies.