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...pulled myself into a building. What building? I don't know. And I took a breath. I took two breaths. I was sure the building would be bombed. I looked for stairs. I kept thinking I needed clean air. I found a bathroom. I didn't realize I wanted water until it was there. Four men inside. Two fighting over the faucet. I shared the toilet with another man. We drank almost the whole bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Penelope Trunk, Columnist, Business 2.0 | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

...didn't like my bit on how we should drill in barren Alaska instead of Texas, where they have people and baseball teams, he liked the ones about how only tiny women play the harp, why hotels give you shower caps and sewing kits but no toothpaste, and how bathroom signs are the only places in society where a thin, barrel-chested man can be next to a dumpy woman shaped like a triangle. I was feeling pretty good about myself until he complimented me on the joke I sent him months ago, when Gary Condit's publicist hinted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Off The Funny Bench | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...anyone would give him, it lacks in editing what it gains in abundance. Comix scholars will appreciate the serendipitous class reunion of so many first generation underground cartoonists. Most notably, Spiegelman provides a back cover depiction of the Temple of Cartoon Gods, with Rall's effigy placed in the bathroom. It's his first public statement on the case and, by implication, Rall's article. The other really big name, Robert Crumb, has handed over what look like a couple pages from his sketchbooks, depicting a pair of medieval "Crumb Girls" in a catfight. Other conrtibutors include Julie Doucet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lemons into Lemonade | 9/7/2001 | See Source »

Fortunately, the blade broke off on the boy's belt buckle. Horrified by what he had almost done, Carson locked himself in the bathroom. "I started reading the Book of Proverbs," Carson recalls. "When I came out three hours later, I had a different view of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Surgeon | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...that’s okay, since they don’t have much in the way of stuff to store. Their sun porch is a hanging forest of drying clothes, basically whatever they’re not wearing at the time, which they wash in plastic tubs in their bathroom. Nowhere in sight are a TV or phone, and hot water probably isn’t an issue, as they also lack a working bathtub. When it’s shower time, they pack their towels and deodorant into tote bags and head out to the public bathhouse for three...

Author: By Sarah J. Ramer, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CHINA: In The Workers’ Paradise | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

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