However, Von Hagens' work has attracted criticism for being shocking, and blurring the boundaries between science and entertainment.

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The exhibit is a very thin slice of a human body which has been preserved using Von Hagens' pioneering plastination procedure.

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The idea that his bodies might count as art, Mr von Hagens says, never cropped up until they left Japan for Europe.

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

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An identical case is still pending, although Steve W. Berman of Hagens Berman says in a statement that Apple "responded to" his suit by installing new software.

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Among his influences, Mr von Hagens cites Michelangelo, da Vinci, and other great anatomical artists who worked before the schism of art and science, and when operating theatres were just that.

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Three days after a Jan. 28, 2006 Chicago Tribune article discussing the potential dangers of portable music players, Seattle class action lawyers Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro lobbed a lawsuit at Apple on behalf of everybody who purchased an iPod in the preceding four years.

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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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Three days after a Jan. 28, 2006 Chicago Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people ) article discussing the potential dangers of portable music players, Seattle class action lawyers Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro lobbed a lawsuit at Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) on behalf of everybody who purchased an iPod in the preceding four years.

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