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Mother Reunited With Baby Stolen From Womb

By Christine Hsu | Oct 11, 2012 03:50 PM EDT

A young mother who had her unborn child stolen from her womb has now been reunited with her baby.

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Saved by the Belly: Man Survives 38 Stab Wounds Because He Was Overweight

By Christine Hsu | Oct 03, 2012 02:12 PM EDT

A UK man knifed 38 times and left for dead survived because he was overweight.

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Police Launch Probe After Farmer Is Eaten by His Own Pigs

By Christine Hsu | Oct 02, 2012 02:14 PM EDT

A family member of an Oregon pig farmer found pieces of his relative's body and dentures scattered across a pig pen, leading investigators to believe that the farmer was eaten by his own hogs.

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Hospital Shootings Are Rare, but Unpredictable and Difficult to Prevent

By Christine Hsu | Sep 21, 2012 07:35 PM EDT

A new analysis on shootings over the past decade reveals that while 1.7 million people are victims of violent crime at the workplace in the United States, hospital shootings are rare events that are very hard to predict.

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Asexual Man Who Cooked and Served His Own Genitals to Diners Charged for Indecent Exposure

By Christine Hsu | Sep 20, 2012 05:11 PM EDT

The asexual man who had surgically removed his penis and testicles and proceeded to cooked and served them up to diners at a Japanese restaurant has been charged with indecent exposure.

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UK Woman Jailed 8 Years for Late Term Abortion

By Christine Hsu | Sep 17, 2012 01:38 PM EDT

A British woman who aborted her own baby within a week of its due date will spend eight years behind bars, the same as the average sentence for rape and longer than a manslaughter sentence.

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Self-Proclaimed Acupuncturist Accused of Intentionally Infecting Patients With HIV for Over a Decade

By Christine Hsu | Aug 30, 2012 06:26 PM EDT

An unlicensed acupuncturist and self-proclaimed "healer" in Switzerland is being accused of intentionally infecting 16 people with the HIV virus in cases going back for more than a decade, authorities announced on Thursday.

Plaster models of heads, showing different parts of the brain

Neuroscience in Court: My Brain Made Me Do It

By Kate Kelland | Aug 29, 2012 09:03 AM EDT

How neuroscience is taking the stand and beginning to challenge society's notions of crime and punishment.

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New Eyewitness Confidence Test Significantly More Accurate in Identifying Culprits Than Traditional Lineup

By Christine Hsu | Aug 28, 2012 07:40 PM EDT

While witness accounts will never be 100 percent accurate, scientists have found a way to boost the accuracy of identification tests by focusing on eyewitnesses' confidence judgments.

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Psychopaths Tweet Differently: Twitter Exposes Your Mental Health

By Christine Hsu | Aug 27, 2012 01:38 PM EDT

While psychopaths, often described as people who are superficially charming and extremely intelligent, are very hard to spot in the real world, they can easily be found virtually on Twitter, scientists claim.

Lakeland

Preserved Body of Diver Who Disappeared in 1999 Found Near Legendary Shipwreck

By Christine Hsu | Aug 22, 2012 03:24 PM EDT

The body of a diver missing for more than a decade has finally been found in the icy waters of Lake Michigan.

 An activist for the legalization of marijuana, who declined to be identified, rolls a marijuana cigarette in a neighbourhood of Montevideo.

Uruguay Government Plans to Sell Marijuana to Fight Crime and Addiction

By Christine Hsu | Jun 21, 2012 10:46 AM EDT

Uruguay unveiled a plan Wednesday to allow government-controlled sales of marijuana to curb drug-related crime.

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