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Robert White, who trans- Court has ruled that the death Variety | The most difficult part for planted a monkey’s head of an 83-year-old woman, new tap Martin Marietta was holding onto another body in 1971, is | whose head was preserved by stores cc the bee still while the chip tial suggesting the transplan- _a cryonics lab, was homicide. copies a was glued to its belly in tation of human brains. : The Alcor Life Extension Vide: precisely the right position. “According to my beliefs, Foundation acknowledged it —_ reacted The chips will transmit the being is contained in the had injected a barbiturate the com infra-red signals that can be brain. The spirit is in the into her body and had then Polar picked up by a ground station COFtex, with memory, severed and frozen her head, how the over a kilometre away. thoughts, feelings, intellectual in the hope that science but it m The Dept of Agriculture capacities, sentiments, would one day be able to which a hopes that by tracking personality, faith. A cephalic — reanimate her with a new the tape thousands of killer bees they pl 2 — im to bd body. number may discover a way to way of thin! ing, the transfer control them without using and the survival of conscious- WAITING ON THE BL ES pesticides. ness. a Z Dr White works at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medi- cine in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr White is a practising Catholic who believes that brain transplants enable the soul to be grafted. His latest research involves cooling the brain. Meanwhile, 35-year-old St Louis attorney Chat Fleming has acquired a patent which Nervous Disorber describes a machine to keep B | ind i n T h severed animal and human $ A pain-crazed patient went heads alive. He did so to ee berserk when London dentist prevent anyone from building Vi S | Oo n S The pe: fan Galliford touched a raw the machine without full Florida nerve. Tom Pickering, 38, public debate. bannin leapt from the chair, punched Dr Jerry Silver, a co-worker Eye doctors in Pescara, Italy dead ai the dentist and attacked his with Dr White and expert in treated nearly 250 locals for roadwz partner and receptionist, regrowing severed nerves, eye lesions or damaged been pi finally stabbing Mr Galliford said; “| think it is fairly corneas after an expected against with a screwdriver. When barbaric at this point.|do not _sign in the sky failed to Rachel police arrived Pickering even see that 100 years from appear. her fror knocked out a constable and now it is a possibility. If More than 20,000 people dogs, ¢ officers had to use truncheons —_ anybody did that today, it converged on a hill just armadi to subdue him. would be absolutely horrible. outside Pescara in March to Ms J Mr Pickering, a former Can you imagine looking look at the Sun after a woman she nee complaints officer with around the room, and you're said the Virgin Mary told her her foo Norfolk County Council, was just a head?” a miracle would appear near _eat fres taken to a mental hospital The longest surviving Case the Sun around noon, she saic and detained under the Western head transplant Some said they saw the forcing Mental Health Act. monkey lived only 36 hours. Sun vibrate and turn green, vegetar NEXUS New Times Six - Spring 1988 The Polaroid Corporation in America has applied for a patent on a videotape which is designed to self-destruct after a number of viewings. Polaroid claims this inferior self-destruct videotape will bring videotape prices down. Albert Conti, manager of Polaroid’s New Business Development Group, told Variety magazine that the new tape would mean video stores could stock more copies of popular titles. Video store owners reacted hysterically, accusing the company of greed. Polaroid has refused to say how the mechanism works but it may employ a signal which automatically erases the tape after a predetermined number of plays. The US Department of Agriculture, concerned about an invasion of killer bees over the Texas border sometime next year, has commissioned Martin Marietta, the makers of the MX missile, to fit the bees with miniature tracking computer chips. The tiny chips, powered by nine solar cells, are no bigger than a grain of salt. The most difficult part for Martin Marietta was holding the bee still while the chip was glued to its belly in precisely the right position. The chips will transmit infra-red signals that can be picked up by a ground station over a kilometre away. The Dept of Agriculture hopes that by tracking thousands of killer bees they may discover a way to control them without using pesticides. American neurosurgeon Dr Robert White, who trans- planted a monkey’s head onto another body in 1971, is now suggesting the transplan- tation of human brains. “According to my beliefs, the being is contained in the brain. The spirit is in the cortex, with memory, thoughts, feelings, intellectual capacities, sentiments, personality, faith. A cephalic transplant would be, to my way of thinking, the transfer and the survival of conscious- ness.” Dr White works at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medi- cine in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr White is a practising Catholic who believes that brain transplants enable the soul to be grafted. His latest research involves cooling the brain. Meanwhile, 35-year-old St Louis attorney Chat Fleming has acquired a patent which describes a machine to keep severed animal and human heads alive. He did so to prevent anyone from building the machine without full public debate. Dr Jerry Silver, a co-worker with Dr White and expert in regrowing severed nerves, said; “I think it is fairly barbaric at this point. | do not even see that 100 years from now it is a possibility. If anybody did that today, it would be absolutely horrible. Can you imagine looking around the room, and you're just a head?” The longest surviving Case Western head transplant monkey lived only 36 hours. Riverside County Coroner’s Court has ruled that the death of an 83-year-old woman, whose head was preserved by a cryonics lab, was homicide. The Alcor Life Extension Foundation acknowledged it had injected a barbiturate into her body and had then severed and frozen her head, in the hope that science would one day be able to reanimate her with a new body. Blinding Hunte r A pain-crazed patient went berserk when London dentist fan Galliford touched a raw nerve. Tom Pickering, 38, leapt from the chair, punched the dentist and attacked his partner and receptionist, finally stabbing Mr Galliford with a screwdriver. When police arrived Pickering knocked out a constable and officers had to use truncheons to subdue him. Mr Pickering, a former complaints officer with Norfolk County Council, was taken to a menta! hospital and detained under the Mental Health Act. Visions The people of Barberville, Florida, have passed a law banning the consumption of dead animals found on roadways. The ordinance has been passed specifically against an aged pensioner, Rachel Jackson, to prevent her from dining on squashed dogs, cats, rattlesnakes and armadillos. Ms Jackson protested that she needed them to eke out her food budget. “! only ever eat freshly killed animals,” she said. “These people are forcing me to become a vegetarian.” ~ tro tere or = Pen eer Vig We Serrupee ur leapt from the chair, punched Dr Jerry Silver, a co-worker Eye doctors in Pescara, Italy dead animals found on the dentist and attacked his with Dr White and expert in treated nearly 250 locals for roadways. The ordinance has partner and receptionist, regrowing severed nerves, eye lesions or damaged been passed specifically finally stabbing Mr Galliford said; “I think it is fairly corneas after an expected against an aged pensioner, with a screwdriver. When barbaric at this point. | do not sign in the sky failed to Rachel Jackson, to prevent police arrived Pickering even see that 100 years from appear. her from dining on squashed knocked outa constable and _now it is a possibility. If More than 20,000 people dogs, cats, rattlesnakes and officers had to use truncheons —_ anybody did that today, it converged on a hill just armadillos. to subdue him. would be absolutely horrible. outside Pescara in March to Ms Jackson protested that Mr Pickering, a former Can you imagine looking look at the Sun after a woman she needed them to eke out complaints officer with around the room, and you're said the Virgin Mary told her her food budget. “| only ever Norfolk County Council, was just a head?” a miracle would appear near eat freshly killed animals,” taken to a mental hospital The longest surviving Case the Sun around noon. she said. “These people are and detained under the Western head transplant Some said they saw the forcing me to become a Mental Health Act. monkey lived only 36 hours. Sun vibrate and turn green, vegetarian.” NEXUS New Times Six - Spring 1988 LL Self-Destruct Video Company Severed Heads 1 Severed Heads 2 The Modern Nervous Disorder