Geektime: Crocs are made out of a plastic - even though they won't give the exact formula - (google up croslite) and plastics are one of the easiest materials to generate a static electric charge.

The whole reason to ban them (from hospitals) is that they are not allowing nurses to do their jobs to the best of their abilities if they are a hazard to the health of patients and to themselves.

I liked being in public school more than my time at all-girl Catholic school because with boys around, they paid me damn good money to do their writing assignments. Of course, all of the creative writing works I wrote for THEM got into the magazines while my own work was ignored.

Thanks to the organic craze, that hippie rock isn't the only option: