Naked comes an editor II

New York Times: By JOHN TAGLIABUE

Greenpeace said it was seeking hundreds of adult volunteers to pose in the nude on a Swiss glacier for publicity photos about global warming that will be shot by the American photographer Spencer Tunick, who is renowned for his photos of crowds of naked people. Greenpeace says the campaign is intended to draw attention to melting Alpine glaciers, which it says are a sign of man-made climate change.

Naked comes an editor I

New York Times (AP):

People in parts of a Vermont town known for nudity are being told to keep their clothes on. In a 3-to-2 vote, town officials in Brattleboro passed an emergency antinudity ordinance for main roads and near schools and places of worship. A gaggle of naked teenagers who hung around a downtown parking lot had prompted the Select Board several months ago to think that clothing-optional was not working. Officials decided then to let winter take care of the problem, and never voted. But, they decided they had seen enough when an elderly man strolled through downtown last week wearing nothing but a fanny pack. Next month, Brattleboro will hold a public hearing on whether the ordinance should become permanent.

Indigenous Groups in Amazon Try to Reclaim Blood Samples From Scientists

The Chronicle::

Members of three indigenous groups in Brazil are fighting to stop a nonprofit research institution in the United States from distributing blood and DNA samples that were collected from them years ago, The New York Times reported this morning.

Medical researchers place a high value on genetic samples from isolated populations because it is easier in such cases to trace the inheritance patterns of particular traits and diseases. For decades, geneticists and paleoanthropologists have gathered samples from people in remote communities in the Brazilian rain forest.

But activists in such communities have often accused researchers of lying to them when the samples were collected — falsely promising, for example, that the samples would be used for only a limited time, or that the samples would be directly used to benefit the community’s health.

American anthropologists collected blood samples from the Yanomami people of Brazil and Venezuela — one of the groups involved in the current dispute — during the 1960s and 1970s, and that effort has led to accusations that the scientists exploited the indigenous group, to turmoil among scientists in the field, to questions about the ethics of such research, and to a complex legal battle.

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