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Posted by exploited in "A New Chinese Import for Congress To Hate On: Plastinated Body Parts" Friday, May 23, 2008 10:54 AM

This has been a long-running issue.

There are two competing plastinated body exhibits, which have very different approaches to the consent issue.

BodyWorlds was the original plastinated bodies exhibit. Its organizers claim they only use bodies that were donated to science with full consent, generally by Europeans.

Bodies the Exhibition is the one that uses "unclaimed" bodies from China. The organizers claim that these bodies are not executed prisoners, but given that the bodies tend to come from the police, nobody really seems to know whether there might be executed prisons among them or not.

See this NYTimes article from 2006:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/business/worldbusiness/08bodies.html?pagewanted=all

Because of the whole "unclaimed" bodies thing, I won't go to the NYC exhibit, even though I'd very much like to see it. One of these days I hope to get a chance to see the BodyWorlds one, though.

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Posted by exploited in "Summer Associate Lunch Suggestions: Kosher Dining" Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:50 PM

In NYC, Prime Grill seems to be the favorite among the velvet kipa crowd, but I personally think it's pretty bad by any normal, non-kosher restaurant standard. Solo is the best fine-dining kosher restaurant I've ever been to. I don't think I'd ever send someone there who didn't have a reason to eat at a kosher place, but if you have to eat at a kosher place, it's quite acceptable food-wise (especially if someone else is buying).

As for truly good kosher restaurants that I'd actually send people to who didn't keep kosher... there aren't many. But Azuri Cafe at 51st and 10th (a little falafel place) and the famed 2nd Ave Deli (no longer on 2nd Ave) both rock. Unfortunately, some folks may not accept their kosher certifications.