Black Girls, Others, Should Stop Mechanically and Chemically Straightening and Curling Their Hair.Yesterday, in the northeast of Brazil, a twelve year-old Black girl chemically straigtened her hair and then electrocuted herself as she tried to use her mother’s curling iron...
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Over 40 groups from various health, environmental and consumer groups are asking Johnson and Johnson to remove the two chemicals 1,4-dioxane and Quaternium-15, a preservative that releases formaldehyde from their...
The ever-popular Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was held in Miami, Florida this year, and will air on CBS on December 3. Anticipation for the annual event, which showcases holiday lingerie pieces on some...
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Formaldehyde has been found in Victoria’s Secret bras. There has been a lawsuit filed against the company claiming the Very Sexy Extreme Push-Up and Angels Secret Embrace bars made an Ohio woman...
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Damien Hirst is today arguably the most successful artist alive in Modern Britain. He has set a record of sort with his new works for more than £65m. One of his work The Black Sheep with the Golden Horn,...
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"(AOL Autos) -- Ah, that new car smell, that eau de car-logne; it does an ego good while it does a wallet bad. And now it turns out, it can do bad things to your health, too. ...
Employees working on the tainted FEMA trailers issued to victims of Hurricane Katrina were suffering from nose bleeds, dizziness and bleeding ears, all effects of formaldehyde exposure - months before they sold them. A new report by the House Oversight and Government Reform...
"By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal officials issued trailers to Hurricane Katrina
victims even though some workplace safety tests detected
high levels of formaldehyde at government staging areas for
the structures just weeks after...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A plan to move people living in trailers to apartments and hotels because of concerns about formaldehyde fumes will not work and will lead to a "second great displacement" of New Orleans residents, the city's mayor said.You can read current NowPublic...
Fumes from 519 trailer and mobile homes in Louisiana and Mississippi were — on average — about five times what people are exposed to in most modern homes, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
"Buying a work by Damien Hirst is always going to be a costly exercise. He is, after all, the highest-selling living artist on the planet whose pieces command unprecedented prices. So spare a thought for Oslo's...
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""The team is planning to have a meeting with Chinese quarantine officials to discuss problems relating to food and non-food commodity standardization," Mohammad Oemar, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indonesian...
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Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
With the Flood of domestic products laced with everything from lead to formaldehyde sold to North American and Global consumers, it's refreshing to know that China...
Some homes sold to displaced residents have high formaldehyde levels By Claudia Lauer | LOS ANGELES TIMESArticle Launched: 08/11/2007 03:04:04 AM PDTvar requestedWidth = 0;
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Some of the latest in the saga of the FEMA trailers provided for Katrina & Rita evacuees in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.This roundup from New Orleans' Gambit on the FEMA trailers and those who live and die in them almost makes you believe that those running FEMA...