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• The Unreturned

  An examination of the fate of American combatants secretly taken into the Soviet Union during the Korean War.

  Tags: Korean War; POWs; KGB; Soviet Union; Sabre; Siberia; U.S. Air Force; American prisoners-of-war; Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office; Memorial Society

  By Ralph F. Wetterhahn

  The Retired Officer Magazine (Long Beach, Calif.)

  2002

• The Deathcare Business

  U.S. News & World Report investigates how the funeral industry is making lots of money off people's grief. The article reports on the 20-year-long crusade of a Catholic priest, Henry Wasielewski, to educate funeral buyers about morticians' markups. One of the findings is that chain-owned funeral homes charge customers the most and often have unfair practices . "In the past five years, funeral prices have risen three times faster than the cost of living," the magazine reports

  Tags: Funeral and Memorial Societies of America; churches; religion; Catholicism; corpses; mausolea; cemeteries; crematory

  By Miriam Horn

  U.S. News & World Report

  1998

• Cult of Madness

  The Dallas Observer reports on a woman whose therapy made her insane. Martha Hurt sought psychiatric help for marriage problems and depression, what she would up with were memories of sexual abuse and over 200 personalities. The article follows hurt through the dissolution of her relationship with her parents, husband and children to her lawsuit against the therapists she now believes made her sicker than when she came to them. Martha Hurt is just one of many women who have found themselves in similar situations after multiple personality disorder and repressed memories became psychological fads.

  Tags: psychology; multiple personality disorder; repressed memories; International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation; False Memory Syndrome Foundation

  By Ann Zimmerman

  Dallas Observer

  1999