Just like Body Worlds demystified the body, she wants Economia to demystify money.

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Twenty million people world-wide have visited Von Hagens' plastination exhibition, Body Worlds.

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Vida Hamburg hopes to drive the point home by following the example of Body Worlds, the most successful museum exhibition of all time.

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The Body Worlds exhibition, which features over 200 plastinated bodies and organs, attracted 850, 000 visitors alone when it came to London between March 2002 and February 2003.

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Vida Hamburg spent seven years as Director of Science Communications of Body Worlds and is using what she learned to create Economia: Money Matters, an exhibition that is in development and will open in northern California in March of next year.

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If there's something irritatingly cocky about a Geat who strips naked to fight a supernatural being on equal terms (Zemeckis goes to "Austin Powers" lengths to hide Beowulf's manhood), his adversary is a curiously sympathetic figure resembling a refugee from Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition.

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Some of the work, Lanier said, has its roots in the earliest days of virtual worlds, when people wore sensor-covered body suits to experience imagined environments.

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