Dying to Know.(University of Tennessee's Body Farm research center) From: Know Your World Extra | Date: September 28, 2001| Author: Elkins, Eric S. | COPYRIGHT 2001 Weekly Reader Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

At the University of Tennessee, scientists study dead people.

In an east Tennessee forest, dead bodies are everywhere. They're rotting in the trunks of cars. They're floating in ponds. They're lying in the sun.

You can tell from the smell that the bodies have been dead for some time.

Sounds like a murder mystery, doesn't it? Actually, the dead bodies help solve mysteries. The bodies are part of the Body Farm, a place of study for the University of ...

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