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This column by Ed Conrad appeared in the Hazleton (Pa.) Standard-
Speaker on March 31, 2002 -- Easter Sunday morning.
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The favorable response from readers, who reported that they DID get
their guaridain angel's name, was incredible, to say the least.
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By ED CONRAD
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It's Easter morning -- Happy Easter, everyone -- and what a great
morning to touch on a subject that's very, very close to your heart.
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Your guardian angel!
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You've heard mention of guardian angels for years and years --
associated with different religions (naturally), in movies, in books,
on TV- - but few folks, I'm sure, have really given serious thought
that they HAVE a guardian angel.
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(Even the God-denying atheists and evolutionists.)
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Most undoubtedly figure it's nothing more than the figment of
someone's imagination -- and perhaps a bit of wishful thinking.
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But, based on a novel experiment conducted right here at the Standard-
Speaker, it appears that the reality of guardian angels is more than
we could ever imagine.
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For example, it appears that our guardian angels can communicate with
us -- letting us know his or her name.
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Still a skeptic, huh? Then read on . .
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It all began about 10 years ago when my late mother visited the Shrine
of Our Lady of Czestochowa near Doylestown (Pa.).
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Upon returning home, Mom excitedly revealed that she had met an
Italian woman -- a senior citizen like herself -- and they clicked
instantly.
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During one of their numerous conversations, the woman asked my mother:
"Anna, what's your guardian angel's name?"
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My mother was flabbergasted, shocked at the question, for which she
obviously had no answer.
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The woman then explained that everyone can learn the name of his or
her guardian angel simply by asking, then told my mother: "Before you
fall asleep tonight, just say, 'Guardian angel, I know you're with me
all the time but I don't know your name. Please let me know your
name.' "
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Simple! And perhaps a bit far-fetched. Still, my mother tried it.
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The next day, Mom enthusiastically phoned to tell me she had learned
that her guardian angel's name was Noel. She said the name was solidly
embedded in her head when she got out of bed in the morning.
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Rather skeptical that it would work for me, I attempted the experiment
myself that very night. Lo and behold, I awoke the next morning with
the name "Girard" ringing in my ears. I have never known any
Girard's.
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Well, that might've well been the end of the story -- but it wasn't!
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About two weeks ago -- after 10 long years -- I casually mentioned the
incident in the Standard-Speaker newsroom when the subject of
guardian
angels came up and, I admit, my story undoubtedly sounded quite hokey
to those listening.
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But the next morning, Annette Rusnock, the newspaper's editorial
librarian, was wearing a broad smile when she strolled into the news
room and proudly announced that she had tried the "experiment" to get
her guardian angel's name and awoke "with Isabella, Isabella,
Isabella."
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"Hmmm!" said Rosella Walker, who works near her. "I'm going to try it
tonight."
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Rosella did and came in the next morning happily revealing that it had
worked for her as well, getting the name Gertrude.
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"And, the thing is, I don't know any Gertrude's," Rosella said. "The
only Gertrude I know is Gertrude's Chocolates."
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Well, strange things kept happening in the newspaper building.
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Joanna marsicano of the classified advertising department tried it and
happily revealed that her guardian angel's name: also was Isabella.
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She said when she saw her name in large, bright lights when she woke
up, the last letter "a" in Isabella kept flashing and flashing,
emphasizing that the "a" is to be pronounced.
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"Just like I'm not Joann but JoannA, my guardian angel undoubtedly
wanted me to be sure I knew her name was IsabellA and not Isabell,"
she remarked.
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"To learn I have a guardian angel and, especially, to know her name
has made me very happy," said Joanna. "It really made my day."
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Mark Katchur, a staff writer, said he wanted to know if he could also
get his guardian angel's name and said he awoke knowing positively it
is Daniel.
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Joanne Suglia, also from classified department, tried it and beamed
while telling everyone that she earned her guardian angel's name is
Estelle.
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As the story circulated throughout the building, Lois Ann Hall and
Nadine Kubilus of the business office, Kathy Breznak and Al Danko of
the advertising department, and Vicki Gennaro of the newsroom all
tried it as well -- and enthusiastically said it worked!
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Lois Ann excitedly said she had requested the name of her guardian
angel when she went to bed.
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"But I awoke about 6:30 the next morning and was sort of disappointed
that nothing happened," she said. "But I laid down again and fell
asleep and, when I got up, the name Marjorie was *everywhere.*"
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Kathy said she was afraid to try the experiment but, while about to
fall asleep one night last week, finally did so. She awoke with the
name Michael indelibly impressed upon her.
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Danko couldn't believe it when he tried the experiment and learned his
guardian angel's name is Justin.
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Vicki said her question also had been answered when she awoke with a
name ringing in her ears. At first, she admitted she was reluctant to
reveal it but then -- eventually -- she told the newsroom staff the
name she came up with was Azriel.
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The latest to attempt the experiment and discover it really works was
George Fetchko of the composing room.
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He tried it and learned his guardian angel's name is Adam.
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The experiment has worked in the majority of cases but, to be
perfectly honest, it didn't work for two or three people and the
answer escapes us. Perhaps these Standard-Speaker staffers hadn't
made
their request with sincerity.
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If there's a fly in the ointment -- to readers still skeptical -- it
would be the name of the guardian angel of Nadine Kubilus, the third
to say she came up with Isabella.
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It means a guardian angel named Isabella popped up three times to
women working at the Standard-Speaker and it's anybody's guess if
there are three guardian angels named Isabella or one Isabella is
working three shifts, for three gals here at the S-S.
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Someone suggested that Nadine -- the third Isabella -- probably heard
that Annette Rusnock and Joanna Marsicano both had come up with
Isabella, independent of each other.
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But Nadine insisted that she hadn't been aware of the names that
Annette and Joanna had come up with.
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"In fact, I learned my guardian angel's name before Joanna because it
happened to me last Thursday morning (a day before Joanna learned her
guardian angel's name)," said Nadine. "I just didn't say anything
when I came to work Friday morning."
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One last word: These are sound, sensible people who have held
responsible positions, most for many, many years. There is no reason
they'd be lying or be part of any type of con job.
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You, too, are invited to learn your guardian angel's name, and your
belief -- or disbelief -- in an existence beyond our physical realm
appears to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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"Ask and you shall receive," a Very Wise Man once said.
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In the case of learning the name of your guardian angel, apparently
all you have to do is ask.
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(PS: You DO NOT get your guardian angel's name while asleep. It hits
you like a ton of bricksd as soon as you wake up.)
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Now, a most unusual follow-up.
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George Fetchko, who got his guardian angel's name, had attended a wake
for a deceased uncle a few nights after the above column appeared.
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"It seemed everyone at the wake was huddling around me, asking me how
I did it)," he remarked at work the next morning.
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It -- and countless letters and e-mails from readers who performed the
experiment and succeeded -- prompted me to write a follow-up column
which began . . .
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"George Fetchko attended a wake the other night and was astounded that
he was MORE POPULAR than the corpse."
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The following have Twittered to report that they've tried the
experiment and it works. A few are a bit shocked, however, because
they're coming up with names like Lucifer and Beelzebub
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Ann "Douche Bag" Coulter
George W. Bush
Richard "Don't Call Me a Dick" Cheney
Bernie Maddof
Queen Elizabeth
Lady Gaga
Sonia of Operation Repo
David Letterman
Sen. John McCain
Jay Leno
Ellen DeGeneres
Father Guido Sarducci
General Motors
Gen. Omar Bradley (Ret.)
General Electric
Georgie Bush's mommy and daddy
The Grim Reaper
Mother Teresa
Dr. Death (Jack Kevorkian)
Christie O'Donnell
Ann "Douche Bag" Coulter
Rabbi Yehuda Levin
Roger Ailes
Keith Olbermann
The Darwin great-great grandkids
Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao
Richard Dawkins
Wall Street Industrial Averages
Frederico "Fredo" Corleone
Pastor Terry Jones
Smithsonian Institution
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60 Minutes
Amerigo Vespucci
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Cowan O'Brien
Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimney Cricket
University of California-Berkeley
Al Einstein
Al Qaeda Al-Qaeda al-Qaida al-Qa'ida
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Stepin Fetchit
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sheriff Dengle -- Reno 911 Police Dept.
American Association of Anatomists
Julian Assage
American Anthropological Association
BillO Reilly
Gorgeous George
Glenn Beck
Sean "Ins" Hannity
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
American Medical Association
Zinkag 41 (Autonomus Unit Zinkag 41, brood assemblage Delta 64)
American Museum of Natural History
The Good Shepherd
American Civil Liberties Union ACLU
Liz Cheney
American Society for Investigative Pathology
American Society of Human Genetics
Wikipedia
Brettt Favre
Geological Society of America
L'Osservatore Romano
Paleontological Research Institute (PRI)
Billy "Never Call Me Willie" Graham
Federation of American Scientists
Science Nature Omni Penthouse magazines
Smithsonian Custodial Employees (Local 666)
Sarah Palin
New England Journal of Medicine
Paul PZ Myers University of Minnesota
Michelle Malkin
Geraldo Rivera
The Good Samaritan
British Petroleum BP
Larry King (But you can call me "The")
Pope Benedict XVI c/o The Vatican
Wayne Clough -- Secretary of Smithsonian
Stephen Hawking
The Girls at Mustang Ranch
Sen. John Boner
The Estate of the Leakey Family
American Board of Forensic Anthropology
American Journal of Pathology
Rudy Giuliani
Michele Bachmann
American Medical Association
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Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Association for Molecular Pathology
talk.origins (David Iain Greig, moderator)
Isaac Newton
sci.bio.evolution
College of American Pathologists
Satchel Paige
Viagra Mfg.Co.
C-span
Cornell University Medical College
Wall Street bankers
Forensic Files
International Academy of Pathology
NBC
Rupert Murdoch
ABC
U.S. Geological Survey
Taliban Federation
Predators Socety -- Chris Hansen CEO
Fox News
MSNBC
Father Time
CNN
New England Journal of Medicine
Opponents of Intelligent Design
sci.med.pathology
Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Tiger Woods
Institute of Human Origins
The Warner Brothers
Society for Medical Anthropology
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
American Journal of Pathology
Alexander Emmanuel "A-Rod" Rodriguez
Donald Rumsfeld
American Society of Primatologists
Orly Taitz
National Primate Association
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles
Mother Nature
Oral Roberts
British Petroleum BP
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
Gorilla Foundation
The Banana Republic
AAA (Amalgamated Atheists of America)
Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, founder of Wikipedia
Rachel Maddow
Google Technicians
Michael Moore
Red Skelton
Bill Maher and His Whole Family
WikiLeaks
Oliver Stone
Smithsonian Snack Shop staff
Time Magazine
President Obama
Anderson Cooper
Pamela Anderson
New York Times
Santa Claus
New York Daily News
George Carlin
New York Post
New York Daily Mirror
Newsday
Newsweek
Washington Insider
Benny Hill
Philadephia Inquirer
The Nation
Walmart
Meet the Press
David Gregory
eBay Stores
PBS
Rosie O'Donnell
To Catch a Predator on American Idol
National Enquirer
National Lampoon
Washington Post
Sean Penn
Wall Street Journal
Joe Paterno
The View
Jeff Rense
The Devil' Advocate
U.S. News and World Report
60 Minutes
Roswell (N.M.) Chamber of Commerce
Arianna Huffington
David Letterman
Charles Manson
Matthew Mark Luke and Jack
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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
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PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
American Association for the Advancement (???) of Science
American Associaton of Petrified Brain Ologists
Acoustical Society of America
American Anthropological Association
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Association of Cereal Chemists
American Association of Engineering Societies
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Association of University Professors
American Association of University Women
American Astronautical Society
American Astronomical Society
American Chemical Society
American College of Dentists
American Dental Association
American Economic Association
American Educational Research Association
American Ethnological Society
American Fisheries Society
American Geological Institute
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Institute of Chemists
American Mathematical Society
American Medical Association
American Meteorological Society
American Nuclear Society
American Oil Chemists' Society
American Physical Society
American Physiological Society
American Phytopathological Society
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
American Society for Cell Biology
American Society for Engineering Education
American Society for Horticultural Science
American Society for Information Science
ASM International
American Society for Microbiology
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
American Society for Quality Control
American Society of Aesthetics
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
American Society of Agronomy
American Society of Animal Science
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Society of Plant Physiologists
American Society of Zoologists
American Speech-Language-Hearing
AssociationAmerican Statistical Association
American Vacuum Society
Association of American Geographers
Association of Research Libraries
Association of Southeastern Biologists
Association for Women in Science
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Biophysical Society Crop Science Society of America
Ecological Society of America
Entomological Society of America
FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology)
Geological Society of America
History of Science Society
Industrial Research Institute
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.(IEEE)
I nstitute of Industrial EngineersI
nstitute of NavigationInstrument Society of America
International Association for Impact AssessmentI
International Communication Association
International Society for Measurement and Control
International Society for Systems Sciences
Marine Technology Society
Mathematical Association of America
Medical Library Association, Inc.Microscopy
Society of America
National Association for Research in Science Teaching
National Association of Biology
Teachers National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Geographic Society
National Science Teachers Association National Society of Black
Engineers
National Society of Professional Engineers
National Speleological Society
Optical Society of America
Planetary Society
Rural Sociological SocietySchool Science and Mathematics Association
Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science, Inc.Sigma Xi
The Scientific Research Society
Society of American Foresters
Society for Applied anthropology
Society for Economic BotanySociety for Industrial Microbiology
Society for Social Studies of Science
Society of Women Engineers
Soil Science Society of America
Speech Communication Association
talk.origins news group -- David Iain Greig
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
The Wildlife Conservation Society
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ANTHRPOLOGY associations
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American Anthropological Association
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
American Board of Forensic anthropology
American Society of Primatologists
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
The British Academy
Institute of Human Origins
The Leakey Foundation
Palaeoanthropology Society
University Departments (Brainwashing101)
Department of anthropology, University of Arizona
School of Human Evolution & Social Change (formerly Department of
anthropology) Arizona State University
anthropology at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley
Department of anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
anthropology at UCSD, University of California, San Diego
Department of anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Department of anthropology, University of Chicago
Department of anthropology, Columbia University
Department of anthropology, Cornell University
Ph.D. Program in anthropology, CUNY
Department of Biological anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University
Department of anthropology, University of Florida
Department of anthropology, Harvard University
anthropology @ UIUC, University of Illinois
anthropology Department, Indiana University
Department of anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Department of anthropology, University of Michigan
Department of anthropology, New York University
Department of anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
anthropology: at the University of Pennsylvania
Department of anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Department of anthropology, Princeton University
Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (Rutgers University)
Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford Unversity
Department of anthropology, University of Texas
Department of anthropology, University of Virginia
Department of anthropology, University of Washington
Department of anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Archaeological Institute of America
Association for Feminist anthropology
Association of Black Anthropologists
Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists
Human Biology Association
Paleoanthropology Society
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology
Society for Archaeological Sciences
Society for Applied anthropology
Society for Economic anthropology
Society for Ethnomusicology
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UNITED STATES (REGIONAL)
Northeastern Anthropological Association
Eastern States Archaeological Federation
Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology
Archaeological Society of Connecticut
Maine Archaeological Society
Massachusetts Archaeological Society
New Hampshire Archeological Society
New York State Archaeological Association
Vermont Archaeological Society
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INTERNATIONAL anthropology ORGANIZATIONS
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Canadian Sociology and anthropology Association
Societe canadienne de sociologie et d'anthropologie
Canadian Archaeological Association
Canadian anthropology Society
Royal Anthropological Institute (UK)
Association of Social Anthropologists of U.K. and the Commonwealth
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Association of Social Anthropologists of Aoteaora/NewZealand
Council for British Archaeology
Society for Industrial Archaeology
Society of Africanist Archaeologists
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PHYSICAL anthropology
Associatons, Iinstitutes and Journals
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ASOCIATIONS, INSTITUTES AND JOURNALS
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Anatomists
American Dental Association
American Anthropological Association
American Journal of Physical anthropology
American Medical Association\
American Museum of Natural History
American Society for Investigative Pathology
American Society of Human Genetics
anthropology Resources
Eclectic anthropology Server
Federation of American Scientists
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences
Dental AnthropologyAmerican Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
American Association of Oral BiologistsAmerican Dental Association
Bibliography of Dental anthropology Articles in AJPA
Biological AnthropologyDental anthropology Association
Dental anthropology NewsletterForensic Odontology
National Institute of Dental Research Forensics
Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists
American Board of Criminalistics
American Board of Forensic anthropology
American Journal of Pathology
American Medical Association
American Society for Clinical Pathology
American Society of Cytopathology
American Society for Investigative Pathology
Annals of Chemical Biochemistry On-Line Journal
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Association for Molecular Pathology
Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology
Bioarchaeology and Forensic anthropology Association
College of American Pathologists
Computer Forensics- Law and Order Magazine
Cornell University Medical CollegeCyberCrime: Forensics
Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology
Forensic anthropology at Florida Atlantic University
Forensic anthropology CenterForensic ArchaeologyNational Center for
Biotechnological Information
New England Journal of Medicine
Usenet: sci.med.pathology
Human Evolution Academic, Research Training and Internship
Appointments and Research Associates
American Journal of Pathology
Nursing Center Institutes
California Regional Primate Research Center
Institute for Ecology and Biological Resources
International Primate Sanctuary of Panama
Oregon Regional Primate Reseach Center
University of Barcelona - Hominid Paleo-ethology Unit\
University of Wisconsin - Regional Primate Research Center
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center - Emory University