public static String removeHtml (String s) {
        if (s == null) return "";
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(s.length());
        replace(s, "<BR>", "\n", sb);
        replace(sb.toString(), "&nbsp;", " ", sb);
        replace(sb.toString(), "&lt;", "<", sb);
        replace(sb.toString(), "&gt;", ">", sb);
        replace(sb.toString(), "&amp;", "&", sb);
        return sb.toString();
    }
strips a subset of HTML that tends to appear in descriptions generated
by Groundspeak Builder
main/src/main/java/cgeo/geocaching/wherigo/openwig/Engine.java