Row over car test corpses
BONN - With the Roman Catholic Church and the government demanding answers, Heidelberg University was ordered to prove it got relatives' permission to use more than 200 human bodies - including those of eight children - in car crash tests, AP reports. In Washington, national transportation officials said that the US government financed some of Heidelberg's research as well as similar tests at a US university.
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