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PEOPLE have been asked whether they would consider chowing down on human meat after science boffins starting growing flesh in a lab. Celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins recently tweeted asking his followers’ thoughts on starting a cannibal diet. Linking to an article about lab-grown flesh, the evolutionary biologist wrote: "I've long been looking forward to this," he wrote. "What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism?” He went to say the scientific breakthrough will be an “interesting test case for the consequentialist morality versus ‘yuck reaction’ absolutism.” The question of whether people would eat artificially created...

Mar. 25 - For at least two days, neighbors at a city apartment complex noticed an acrid aroma, black smoke and leaping flames coming from two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment. What, neighbors at the Red Oak Place apartments wondered, was going on in the unit where 27-year-old Timothy Wayne Shepherd lived? What was he burning at all hours, for days at a time? The answer turned their stomachs. According to law enforcement officials, Shepherd dismembered, and then burned the body of his former girlfriend, Tynesha Stewart, a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student. Nothing remains of...

Angry islanders vent their fury yet again The placard expressing Bali's fury over the latest bombings was gruesomely witty. As Hindus prepared to celebrate a religious holiday, demonstrators called for terrorists to be slaughtered and eaten as part of the festivities. "Menu for Galongan: satay made from the Bali bombers," read the sign, published on the front page of the newspaper Radar Bali. In an insult to any Muslim, it said the meal of skewered meat should be served with coconut sauce and pig's blood. "Indonesia is a nest of terrorists, please kill the bombers as soon as possible," another...