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Always dressed immaculately and often puffing a big Cuban cigar, Dr. Lukash welcomed the goriest cases but preferred the challenging ones.
Dr. Leslie Lukash, who, as a self-described “diagnostician of death” helped identify the corpse of Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor, and who oversaw the autopsies of as many as 50,000 bodies in more than four decades as the medical examiner of Nassau County, died on Aug. 16 in Manhasset, N.Y. He was 86... Yo read more, click on Permalink
This startling image "speaks as powerfully as a picture can, for itself." The article about Nina Berman's show "Purple Hearts" appeared in today's NY Times and is worth reading: Permalink
Published 50 years ago, "On the Road” still sells about 100,000 copies a year in various paperback editions, according to Viking. And while its era as a counterculture standard-bearer may have passed, it has far outlasted many other cult classic.
How many of us reveled in Kerouac's vibrant prose as Sal Paradise and Dan Moriarity criss-crossed the country in a wild manic manner.
Fine piece in the NY Times today commemorating the book. Permalink
Most of us will remember W. Eugene Smith's iconic 1948 picture of Dr.Ernest Ceriani of Kremmling, Colorado.
An article in the Sunday August 12, NY Times reminded us of that It was about Dr. Timothy Lepore, Nantucket’s only surgeon. Lepore, 62, is also the island’s medical examiner, school physician, football team doctor, Lyme disease expert, identifier of excavated Indian bones and occasional Dr. Doolittle. At times, he has taken payment in cookies and lobsters. You will enjoy this article (see Permalink)
Be sure to view the video you will find there, too.
Addendum: We were curious about what became of Dr. Ceriani in his later years. Click here for an update: Download Ceriani.doc
Trees divide in odd way
by: Khalifa Sharquie
Baghdad, 23 Rajab 1426
Oily skin
OIiy land
Great thinkers and creative minds --
Air is sweeter and land is fruitful
Trees divide in odd way
And they ask why Iraq?
When you catch the lion,
foxes are free
But all lions are now out their cages
All Iraqi are politicians, even children,
and they know the plays
So invasion and occupation are waste of time
and waste of blood
And bankers ask where is our money?
Fire eats dollar,
And thinkers eat sausages
from Mark White with Aloha
