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Body Art

Our fascination with what's on the inside.

By |Updated Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005, at 7:30 AM

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Click here to read a slide-show essay on "Body Worlds," the traveling museum exhibit about human anatomy that 17 million people have seen.

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Amanda Schaffer is a science and medical columnist for Slate.