Black Girl, 12, Electrocuted While Straightening Her Hair

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...

Johnson & Johnson told to remove Chemicals from Baby Shampoo

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...

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2008 Airs on December 3

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...

Formaldehyde found in Victoria's Secret bras

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...

British artist Damien Hirst works fetch record prices

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,...

Don't inhale that new car smell

"(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. ...

Makers Knew Katrina FEMA Trailers Were Tainted

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...

Documents feed debate on FEMA trailers

"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 Mayor Rips Plan to Empty FEMA Trailers

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...

CDC: Gulf Coast Trailers Have Toxic Air

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...

Gallery in a pickle as Hirst's cow and calf spring a leak

"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...

RI team to meet Chinese quarantine agency in Beijing

""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...

Faulty Chinese Exports: Beginning Of A Trade War?

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...

FEMA to buy back Katrina trailers

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; ...

FEMA & the Deathly Trailers

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...

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