A Grave Issue

The director of the gross-anatomy program at the University of New England has a problem most people in his situation would die for: an oversupply of cadavers for his first-year anatomy students.

The university's College of Osteopathic Medicine, located in Biddeford, Me., uses 50 to 60 cadavers a year for 120 students, and a refrigerator in the morgue can store up to 100 bodies.

But for the past several years, the college has received up to 75 donations annually, spurring a

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