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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Scots and the Greeks. Skara Brae, a Neolithic settlement on the Scottish mainland dating back to 3,000 B.C., features stone huts equipped with drains extending from recesses in their walls - a feature that historians believe were for residents' bathroom needs. The Palace of Knossos on Crete, built around 1,700 B.C., features definite latrines: large, earthenware pans connected to a water supply that ran through terra-cotta pipes. Europeans had nothing of comparable sophistication until well into the 16th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Toilets | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...excited,” Fliss says as she describes Lamont’s new collaborative learning space. The room includes two built-in projectors and screens, ten laptops, a DVD player, a VCR, document camera and wireless control system. Here, librarians can teach students about using resources. It is a different world from Horrocks’ office, full of Lincoln memorabilia...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Widener to the Web | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Corps betrayed New Orleans in a number of ways. Its flood walls played matador defense because they were badly designed and badly engineered, then built in soggy soils in the wrong locations; the commander of the Corps, General Carl Strock, admitted his agency's "catastrophic failure" and submitted his resignation nine months after the storm, long after the nation had stopped paying attention. The Corps also exposed New Orleans to storm surges by manhandling and straitjacketing the Mississippi River over the past 80 years, blocking the flow of silt to southern Louisiana, gradually sinking the Big Easy below sea level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Katrina Ruling Prevent Another Disaster? | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...workmen rolling up the layers of red Afghan rugs that had been laid over the concrete walkways for the occasion. Ali Seraj, great-grandson of former King Abdul Rahman Khan, Afghanistan's first modern monarch, took a nostalgia-tinged stroll through the nearby rose garden. His great-grandfather had built the turn-of-the-century palace, and Seraj took particular pride in pointing out the beautiful buildings his ancestors had once inhabited. The inauguration hall was where the king once received supplicants; a crumbling ruin had once housed his great-grandfather's elephants. As he paused to point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karzai Sworn In: Now, on to the Next Afghan Crisis | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...MATCH BUILT ON ‘BROMANCE?...

Author: By Amira Abulafi and Tara W. Merrigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Bowman-Hysen Boast Bi-Partisan Support | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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