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crash
Joined: 22 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject: Pubic Debate Proposal |
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Anybody read what's on The Korea Times website today?
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/
I tend to give people a lot of slack but come on, that's pretty embarassing. They do mean "public" right??? |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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I'll cast my vote for shaved, or a landing strip at the very least!  |
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crash
Joined: 22 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah, they changed it. Nice job. |
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superdave
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: over there ----->
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| crash wrote: |
| Ah, they changed it. Nice job. |
yeah, they changed it ...
but to keep this topic going, here's an interesting story about pubic lice:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-odd-netherlands-crab-hunt,0,1476805.story
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Dutch Museum Hunts Elusive Crab Lice
By TOBY STERLING
Associated Press Writer
2:41 PM EDT, October 19, 2007
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
A Dutch museum said Friday it is having trouble getting its hands on a parasite that just about everybody else is anxious to avoid: crabs.
The Rotterdam Natural History Museum has appealed for somebody -- anybody -- to give it a single crab louse for its collection, amid fears they may be dying out.
The donor's anonymity, said curator Kees Moeliker, is guaranteed.
"We have over 300,000 species represented in our collection," he said. "Even though most of them are not on display, that doesn't mean small, unpopular insects are less important scientifically."
Moeliker said he began hunting in earnest for the species, also known as "pubic lice," last year after reading an article published by British doctors in the June issue of the journal of Sexually Transmitted Infections.
The article, titled "Did the Brazilian Kill the Pubic Louse?" found that crabs rates had fallen first in women, and several years later in men in Leeds. The authors hypothesized that the bikini wax known as "The Brazilian" that removes all or most pubic hair, might be to blame.
"When the bamboo forests that the Giant Panda lives in were cut down, the bear became threatened with extinction. Pubic lice can't live without pubic hair," Moeliker said.
Both Dutch and American health officials cited the difficulty of obtaining data on crab lice.
Zant Kuijl of the Dutch Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, said crab lice can be treated with similar medicines to those used on head lice, and people who get crabs are often too embarrassed to tell their doctors.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said the situation there was similar.
"Pubic lice is not one of our reportable STDs here in the U.S. -- chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhea are reported to us," Nikki Kay wrote in an e-mailed response.
Moeliker said he did not want to wait for proof the species is in decline.
"We learned this lesson with the house sparrow. Twenty years ago we thought, 'why bother to get one?' since they're so common," he said.
"Next thing you know, the sparrow was on the threatened species list and they're almost impossible to find in the Netherlands."
Copyright � 2007, The Associated Press |
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The_Conservative
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| crash wrote: |
| Ah, they changed it. Nice job. |
They may have changed it...but they still got "debate" wrong. |
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