11.   Donated skin can heal burn victims, ligaments can repair knees, and bone can be used in hip replacement surgeries.

12.   In ancient China, bones were used by soothsayers who attempted to divine the future.

13.   IN the near future, doctors of traditional Chinese medicine may use pig bone as a substitute for tiger bone in treating patients with rheumatism.

14.   Reconstructive surgery, using bone from that shared leg, replaced about one-third of the pelvis on each girl.

15.   Reports that Givenchy designer Alexander McQueen was using human bones and teeth in his latest collection were denied by the fashion house Monday.

16.   That means the cow could have been fed with old, imported rations or that Portuguese rations produced after the import ban also used bones from infected local animals.

17.   The bones were used in tests to measure the effects atmospheric explosions of hydrogen bombs were having on humans and the environment.

18.   Tiger bone is used as an ingredient in medicines or as an aphrodisiac.

19.   Tiger penises are considered a potent aphrodisiac and tiger bones are used to treat arthritis and other ailments.

20.   Villagers in Burkina Faso buried alive an alleged sorcerer who had dug up a grave to use the bones for magic, police said Thursday.