Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ binaryoppositionpublic
Rss Feed
Sort By: Most Recent | Popular Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
sirgabrial

EPA threatened states wanting tougher mercury limits - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...2008-02-16-epa-pressure_N.htm

shared by sirgabrial on 19 Feb 08 - Cached
  • EPA threatened states wanting tougher mercury limits
  • While arguing in court that states are free to enact tougher mercury controls from power plants, the Bush administration pressured dozens of states to accept a scheme that would let some plants evade cleaning up their pollution, government documents show.
  • A week ago, a federal appeals court struck down that industry-friendly approach for mercury reduction. It allowed plants with excessive smokestack emissions to buy pollution rights from other plants that foul the air less.
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • Internal Environmental Protection Agency documents and e-mails, obtained by the advocacy group Environmental Defense, show attempts over the past two years to blunt state efforts to make their plants drastically reduce mercury pollution instead of trading for credits that would let them continue it.
  • An EPA official said the agency's job "is not to pressure states."
  • The federal plan capped overall mercury releases from power plants nationwide. But it allowed plants to avoid reductions by purchasing emission credits. Critics have said that creates "hot spots" of mercury releases harmful to communities.
  • A neurotoxin linked to learning disabilities, mercury is most dangerous to fetuses, infants and small children, usually when pregnant women or children eat mercury contaminated fish.
  • "There was an extraordinary degree of aggressiveness by EPA in pressing states to abandon a more protective mercury program. EPA devoted enormous effort to preventing states from doing more," said Vickie Patton, a lawyer for Environmental Defense.
  • Over 30 states have repudiated in some form EPA's rules by outlawing trading, accelerated compliance or adopted much more stringent emission levels
  • reduce mercury emissions by 90%
sirgabrial

Bush wants limits on access to evidence - Yahoo! News - 0 views

news.yahoo.com/...scotus_guantanamo_detainees

shared by sirgabrial on 19 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Bush wants limits on access to evidence
  • The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to limit judges' authority to scrutinize evidence against detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
  • The administration said the court could still add the issue to its calendar this year and hear arguments in a rare May session, then render a decision by late June.
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • The case is linked to another dispute already at the high court in which detainees are asking the justices to rule that they can use the U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.
  • Another option for the court is to take no action on the new case until it decides on the extent of the detainees' legal rights.
  • n the new case, the administration is asking the court to undo a federal appeals court ruling that broadens its authority to look at evidence about whether detainees have been properly characterized as enemy combatants.
  • The ruling held that, when Guantanamo Bay detainees challenge their status as "enemy combatants," judges must review all the evidence, not just the evidence the military chooses.
  • The administration said the decision jeopardizes national security.
  • At the Guantanamo hearings, detainees are not allowed to have lawyers present and the Pentagon decides what evidence to present. And unlike in criminal trials, the government is not obligated to turn over evidence that the defendant might be innocent.
sirgabrial

Scientists closely examine FEMA trailers - 0 views

hosted.ap.org/...TOXIC_TRAILERS

shared by sirgabrial on 19 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Scientists closely examine FEMA trailers
  • CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding said scientists need time to determine how - and why - formaldehyde levels varied among different models of FEMA trailers. Scientists from the CDC and the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory also are looking at ways to reduce formaldehyde emissions in the trailers.
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is studying materials used by several companies that provided FEMA with tens of thousands of travel trailers after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • Test results reported this week by the CDC showed formaldehyde levels in hundreds of FEMA trailers and mobile homes were, on average, about five times higher than what people are exposed to in most modern homes. Formaldehyde, a preservative commonly used in construction materials, can cause breathing problems and also is believed to cause cancer.
  • While the Federal Emergency Management Agency rushes to move thousands of Gulf Coast storm victims out of government-issued trailers, scientists are tearing the units apart to learn why many have exposed occupants to dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes.
  • The study was limited to materials in unoccupied government trailers.
  • "We in the RV industry are committed to following the science and making sure our products are safe,"
  • Critics claim FEMA should have reacted sooner to concerns that formaldehyde is to blame for a host of ailments reported by trailer occupants.
  • FEMA administrator R. David Paulison said Thursday the agency hoped to move all of the roughly 35,000 families out of trailers by summer, when hot weather increases formaldehyde emissions.
barnaby

Choosing radical cancer surgery - Washington Post- msnbc.com - 0 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/23005766

shared by barnaby on 16 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Rob Stein
    • barnaby
      barnaby on 16 Feb 08
       
      man
  • surgeon told her she could save her breast.
  • Lawrence decided to have it removed anyway. And then she decided to have the healthy one removed, too.
  • ...12 more annotations...
  • "I just didn't want to have to worry about it. For me, it was a matter of peace of mind."
  • The proportion of breast cancer patients who are opting for double mastectomies when far less radical surgery would suffice has increased sharply,
  • rose from 1.8 percent to 4.5 percent between 1998 and 2003 -- a 150 percent increase.
  • "I think this is a very high price to be paying for a sense of peace of mind," said M. Carolina Hinestrosa
    • barnaby
      barnaby on 16 Feb 08
       
      unless they are planning on breastfeeding regardless of the fact that they are going through menapause, i don't any price is being paid other than that of the sergury.
  • "Part of it may be that our plastic surgery options are better, so the thought of having a breast removed might for some women be somewhat less traumatic if they can have a reconstructed breast,"
  • Todd M. Tuttle
    • barnaby
      barnaby on 16 Feb 08
       
      man
  • rend that disturbs some experts
    • barnaby
      barnaby on 16 Feb 08
       
      breast experts/men
  • surgery reduces the risk of getting a second cancer
  • That is because second breast cancers are usually caught early
    • barnaby
      barnaby on 16 Feb 08
       
      because of regular visits to a dr who mashes their breasts during a very uncomfortable mamogram
  • His study did not examine the reasons for the trend
  • but Tuttle suggested several explanations.
  • More aggressive screening with technologies such as MRI is also producing more false positives, and that can mean a biopsy.
    • barnaby
      barnaby on 16 Feb 08
       
      Questions: would consider removing your legs if paralized and they became useless? if already requiring sergury near your appendix would you opt to have it removed to prevent future problems?
sirgabrial

Drug regulators re-evaluating Botox's safety - 0 views

www.sfgate.com/...article.cgi

shared by sirgabrial on 14 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Drug regulators re-evaluating Botox's safety
  • U.S. drug regulators are re-evaluating the safety of Botox, best known as a wrinkle treatment, based on reports of serious ill effects, including several deaths among children taking Botox or a related drug.
  • In a public alert issued Friday, the Food and Drug Administration said Botox, along with a similar drug called Myobloc, has been linked to life-threatening symptoms such as strained breathing and severe difficulty in swallowing, which can lead to a form of pneumonia. The FDA is advising doctors to monitor patients for such reactions while it decides whether to strengthen warnings on the drugs' labels.
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • Many of the most serious reactions - deaths and hospitalizations - occurred among children treated for cerebral palsy-associated limb spasticity, the agency said. The drugs are not FDA-approved for that use in children or adults.
  • FDA-approved drugs often have off-label uses, where physicians take medications approved for one disease to treat another. This practice often benefits patients and drug manufacturers, but can increase risks.
  • estimates it will yield as much as $1.4 billion in 2008.
  • Botox and Myobloc are each forms of a toxin produced by bacteria that can paralyze muscles and lead to botulism, a fatal food poisoning.
  • But in small amounts, the injected toxins can calm muscle spasms. A third product, Botox Cosmetic, is FDA-approved to improve the appearance of wrinkles between the eyebrows.
  • The FDA said case reports under review suggest that the toxin may migrate from the point of injection more commonly than had been believed, and can cause symptoms of botulism.
  • Shares in Allergan dropped nearly 6 percent to close at $63.30 on Friday.
sirgabrial

Striking writers reach tentative deal with studios | Reuters - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...idUSN0851358020080209

shared by sirgabrial on 14 Feb 08 - Cached
  • threatening to spoil the Oscars
  • Golden Globes awards ceremony was canceled
  • The last major strike to hit Hollywood, a walkout by screenwriters in 1988, lasted 22 weeks and delayed the start of that year's fall television season.
sirgabrial

Striking writers reach tentative deal with studios | Reuters - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...idUSN0851358020080209

shared by sirgabrial on 14 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Striking writers reach tentative deal with studios
  • The union representing Hollywood's striking writers said it reached a "tentative deal" with studios and will meet members later on Saturday to discuss ending a three-month walkout that has crippled television production and overshadowed the awards season.
  • The breakthrough was announced via e-mail to the 10,500 members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), who went on strike for the first time in almost 20 years on November 5 in a dispute centering on compensation for work distributed over the Internet.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • "While this agreement is neither perfect nor perhaps all that we deserve for the countless hours of hard work and sacrifice, our strike has been a success," WGA West president Patric Verrone and WGA East president Michael Winship said in the memo.
  • Members will meet in New York at 2 p.m. EST and in Los Angeles at 10 p.m. EST to discuss specific terms, the ratification process and ending the strike, the union added.
  • The WGA memo said the tentative deal "creates formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media, provides access to deals and financial data to help us evaluate and enforce those formulas, and establishes the principle that, 'When they get paid, we get paid.'"
  • The Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. has estimated the strike has cost the region's film and TV industry at least $650 million in wages, with over $1 billion more in lost earnings attributed to the ripple effect on the local economy.
sirgabrial

DNA Found to Have "Impossible" Telepathic Properties | The Daily Galaxy: News from Plan... - 0 views

www.dailygalaxy.com/...dna-found-to-ha.html

shared by sirgabrial on 14 Feb 08 - Cached
  • DNA Found to Have "Impossible" Telepathic Properties
  • DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to.
  • Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. The recognition of similar sequences in DNA’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.
  • In the study, scientists observed the behavior of fluorescently tagged DNA strands placed in water that contained no proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment.
  • Strands with identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences.
  • This recognition effect may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes, which is a process responsible for DNA repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. The new findings may also shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which are factors in cancer, aging, and other health issues.
sirgabrial

Tornado survivor downed shot, 'then I heard this noise' - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

shared by sirgabrial on 14 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Tornado survivor downed shot, 'then I heard this noise'
  • James Kruger was watching election results Tuesday night in Lafayette, Tennessee, when a warning appeared on his TV screen: A tornado was headed straight toward his town. Then the lights went out.
  • He put on sweat pants, grabbed a flashlight, drank a shot of whiskey, "and then I heard this noise," Kruger said Thursday.
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • He headed for a door, "and all of a sudden I heard the glass breaking and it was sucking," he said. "When I tried to shut the door, [it] seemed like the door was lifting up. So I just dove and I lay flat on the floor."
  • Lying there, everything in the house flew over him, scraping and banging his back, Kruger said. Then the chaos stopped. "I was laying in the dirt. There was no floor. No nothing."
  • The house was gone, but Kruger says he believes there's reason why he survived. "I think God was holding my leg, beating my ass, teaching me that I hadn't been doing everything he wanted me to do," he said.
  • Kruger, Whitaker and others across the region tried Thursday to put their lives back together in a swath of the South where tornadoes killed at least 56 people.
  • The trail of death stretched across four states, with four fatalities in Alabama, 13 in Arkansas, seven in Kentucky and 32 in Tennessee.
  • Macon County, Tennessee, which includes Lafayette, was one of the worst-hit areas, with 14 deaths and overwhelming damage.
  • Elsewhere in the area, a mother was found dead in a creek bed about 50 yards from where her house stood. Her baby was discovered alive 250 yards away. The child was taken to a local hospital, Austin said.
sirgabrial

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian organ scam doctor deported - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...7236617.stm

shared by sirgabrial on 14 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Indian organ scam doctor deported
  • A doctor accused of organising illegal organ transplants in India has been deported following his arrest in Nepal.
  • Amit Kumar was detained late on Thursday, accused of heading an illegal kidney transplant ring in Gurgaon, a wealthy suburb of New Delhi.
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • Police said they were investigating whether Mr Kumar was involved in illegal transplants in Nepal, and that he had been trying to flee to Canada.
  • Mr Kumar has denied the accusations of illegal practices.
  • "I have not committed any crime," he said at a news conference in Kathmandu on Friday.
  • India bans trade in live kidneys unless the organ is donated by a blood relative or a spouse, or if two families agree a swap.
  • But many continue to sell their kidneys to satisfy demand from rich clients, including Westerners, waiting for transplants.
  • In January, police raided an illegal clinic in Gurgaon after being tipped-off by a victim. Four people were arrested. The donors were allegedly paid up to $2,500 (£1250).
  • $200,000 and had been seized from Mr Kumar on his arrest.
sirgabrial

BBC NEWS | Business | G7 issues global economy warning - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...7236123.stm

shared by sirgabrial on 14 Feb 08 - Cached
  • G7 issues global economy warning
  • The global economy could deteriorate further in the wake of the global credit crunch, a meeting of the G7 group of wealthy nations has warned.
  • But the group pledged to act individually and together to promote stability and growth.
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • It also urged banks to disclose all their losses and bolster their balance sheets to help stabilise markets.
  • The group's statement came after a day-long meeting of ministers and central bank governors in Tokyo.
  • "In all our economies, to varying degrees, growth is expected to slow somewhat in the short term," it said.
  • The G7 nations said that continuing risks included further problems for the US housing market, tighter credit, high commodity prices and rising inflation.
  • They also called on oil producers to increase output and on China to let its currency appreciate faster.
  • China, India and other East and South East Asian economies have experienced break-neck growth over the past few years
  • But as the global credit crisis and US housing slump has brought the world's largest economy to its knees, concerns have persisted that these problems would spread to Asia, which is heavily reliant on US imports of its products and foreign investment for growth.
sirgabrial

Airlines: Passenger Only Gets Half Her Seat On Delta Flight - 0 views

consumerist.com/...-half-her-seat-on-delta-flight

shared by sirgabrial on 05 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Passenger Only Gets Half Her Seat On Delta Flight
  • escalate it!
  • Julie asked if she could purchase a seat in first class but was told they were sold out, and there were no more seats available.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • When she emailed a complaint to Delta and asked for a refund, they thanked her for her feedback.
  • Julie found that only about half of her seat was available due to the size of the passenger next to her. The passenger was apologetic, but obviously couldn't magically shrink her body mass and make more room.
  • appealed this to someone higher up
  • When Julie took his advice, Delta apologized and gave her a $250 voucher.
  • Delta, and most of the other network airlines, tends to look the other way when someone unusually tall or wide boards their aircraft. At least one carrier, Southwest Airlines, doesn't. It requires that plus-sized passengers buy an extra seat (but they get their money back if there are empty seats).
sirgabrial

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...7222114.stm

shared by sirgabrial on 05 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo
  • Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares.
  • The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday.
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying to revive the company.
  • lay off 1,000 staff
  • Yahoo shares have fallen 46% since reaching a year-high of $34.08 in October. On Friday they closed almost 48% higher.
  • Microsoft closed 6.6% lower while Google shares fell 8.6%.
  • "Ultimately this corporate marriage was forced by the rise of Google, which has grown into a serious competitor for both Microsoft as a software company and Yahoo as an internet portal," said Tim Weber, business editor of the BBC News website.
  • This consolidates the marketplace down to Google versus Microsoft.
sirgabrial

The Anniston Star » Latest from AP - 0 views

hosted.ap.org/...ODD_GIRAFFES_JACKET

shared by sirgabrial on 05 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Giraffe's jacket a creature comfort
  • Like many a lady of a certain age, Tiki feels the cold these days.
  • So workers at the Oakland Zoo are having a custom-fit coat made to keep the giraffe cozy this winter.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • At age 18, venerable for giraffes, Tiki is subject to the vicissitudes of age. She already gets regular visits from a chiropractor, a masseuse and an acupuncturist.
  • Those are accepted treatments for horses, at least in the always edgy San Francisco Bay area, and provide a gentle way to treat animals without drugs, said zoo keeper Melissa McCartney. Massage helps get Tiki used to interacting with keepers. Acupuncture helps with her shoulder and withers.
  • At 13 feet tall, Tiki is too big to be herded into a stall, and regular horse blankets are too ill-fitting to be left on without supervision lest she get in a tangle.
  • The zoo staff got in touch with a horse-blanket designer who agreed to donate her services to tailor a coat for Tiki.
  • The jacket will be a tasteful forest green and feature a removable liner for those in-between days.
sirgabrial

GM tear-free onion created by scientists - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...5GZ1LALZZ3PQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0

shared by sirgabrial on 05 Feb 08 - Cached
  • GM tear-free onion created by scientists
  • A tear-free onion that should be tastier and healthier has been created by using genetic tinkering to turn off the enzyme that makes us cry.
  • The onions, which can be chopped without painful, stingy, weeping eyes, have been tested in the laboratory by New Zealand Crop & Food Research scientist Dr Colin Eady, with his collaborators in Japan.
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • The key is not to introduce a foreign gene but to silence one using a phenomenon called RNA interference. By stopping sulphur compounds from being converted to the tearing agent and redirecting them into compounds responsible for flavour and health, the process could even improve the onion.
  • "We anticipate that the health and flavour profiles will actually be enhanced,"
  • "This is an exciting project because it's consumer orientated and everyone sees this as a good biotechnology story,"
  • Although conventional growing has identified some sweet, mild onions, this discovery will eventually give farmers new varieties and consumers more choice."
  • The tearing agent is a chemical defence. Break into onion cells, and you release amino acid sulphoxides, along with the enzyme (that is turned off in the new onion). The enzyme changes the sulphoxides into a vapour that is the lacrimatory factor that acts on tear glands
sirgabrial

BBC NEWS | Technology | New cable cut compounds net woes - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...7222536.stm

shared by sirgabrial on 05 Feb 08 - Cached
  • New cable cut compounds net woes
  • A submarine cable in the Middle East has been snapped, adding to global net problems caused by breaks in two lines under the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
  • The Falcon cable, owned by a firm which operates another damaged cable, led to a "critical" telecom breakdown, according to one local official.
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • The cause of the latest break has not been confirmed but a repair ship has been deployed, said owner Flag Telecom.
  • The earlier break disrupted service in Egypt, the Middle East and India.
  • Wednesday's incident caused disruption to 70% of the nationwide internet network in Egypt on Wednesday, while India suffered up to 60% disruption.
  • The first cable - the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) - was cut at 0800 on 30 January, the firm said.
  • FLAG is a 28,000km (17,400 mile) long submarine communications cable that links Australia and Japan with Europe via India and the Middle East.
  • SEA-ME-WE 4 is a submarine cable linking South East Asia to Europe via the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.
  • The two cable cuts meant that the only cable in service connecting Europe to the Middle East via Egypt was the older Sea-M-We 3 system, according to research firm TeleGeography.
  • The firm said the cuts reduced the amount of available capacity on the stretch of network between India and Europe by 75% percent.
sirgabrial

Brain rewards aggression much like it does sex, food, drugs - 0 views

www.physorg.com/news121098401.html

shared by sirgabrial on 05 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Brain rewards aggression much like it does sex, food, drugs
  • New research from Vanderbilt University shows for the first time that the brain processes aggression as a reward—much like sex, food and drugs—offering insights into our propensity to fight and our fascination with violent sports like boxing and football.
  • "Aggression occurs among virtually all vertebrates and is necessary to get and keep important resources such as mates, territory and food,"
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • "We have found that the 'reward pathway' in the brain becomes engaged in response to an aggressive event and that dopamine is involved."
  • "It is well known that dopamine is produced in response to rewarding stimuli such as food, sex and drugs of abuse,"
  • For the experiments, a pair of mice — one male, one female — was kept in one cage and five "intruder" mice were kept in a separate cage. The female mouse was temporarily removed, and an intruder mouse was introduced in its place, triggering an aggressive response by the 'home' male mouse. Aggressive behavior included tail rattle, an aggressive sideways stance, boxing and biting.
  • The home mouse was then trained to poke a target with its nose to get the intruder to return, at which point it again behaved aggressively toward it. The home mouse consistently poked the trigger, which was presented once a day, indicating it experienced the aggressive encounter with the intruder as a reward.
  • The same "home" mice were then treated with a drug that suppressed their dopamine receptors. After this treatment, they decreased the frequency with which they instigated the intruder's entry.
  • treated with the dopamine receptor suppressors again
  • their movements in an open cage were observed.
  • no significant changes in overall movement compared to times when they had not received the drugs.
  • This was done to demonstrate that their decreased aggression in the previous experiment was not caused by overall lethargy in response to the drug, a problem that had confounded previous experiments.
  • "We learned from these experiments that an individual will intentionally seek out an aggressive encounter solely because they experience a rewarding sensation from it,"
barnaby

Tough alien mussels threaten Bay Area waters - 0 views

www.sfgate.com/...article.cgi

shared by barnaby on 03 Feb 08 - Cached
  • alien mussel, which multiplies so fast it chokes out natives species, clogs pipes and causes havoc, prompted the East Bay Municipal Utility District Thursday to ban some recreational boating
  • first in what is expected to be a widespread campaign to stop the tiny monster cousins known as the quagga and zebra mussels from ravaging Northern California reservoirs as they have the Great Lakes
  • believed to have spread on the hulls of boats
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • invaded the Great Lakes as well as Lake Mead on the Colorado River.
  • ban would prevent all boats from outside California, Southern California, San Benito County and neighboring Santa Clara County from entering any of the district's reservoirs.
  • boats will be forced to undergo inspections
  • Industrial intake pipes 3 feet in diameter have been completely clogged and entire water systems ravaged.
  • single mussel can release 40,000 eggs at a time and up to 1 million
  • consume vast quantities of plankton, starving indigenous species.
  • Quagga and zebra mussel colonies might be contributing to a "dead zone" in Lake Erie
  • cost the power industry alone $3.1 billion between 1993 and 1999
  • overall economic impact is estimated to be more than $5 billion.
  • discovery by a fisherman of a clump of zebras in San Justo has created widespread alarm among water agency officials in the Bay Area
barnaby

Fly naked on nudist holiday flight - News- msnbc.com - 0 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/...22895813

shared by barnaby on 03 Feb 08 - Cached
  • German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm.
  • start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom, planned for July 5 and costing 499 euros ($735).
  • OssiUrlaub.de
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • crew will remain clothed throughout the flight for safety reasons.
  • "free body culture" (FKK) as it is known in Germany, was banned by the Nazis but blossomed again after the Second World War
  • There are FKK hotels where you can go into the restaurants and shops naked
« First ‹ Previous 161 - 180 of 384 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page