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...RECYCLING $770 Amount a Chengdu panda-breeding center used to spend every month to clean up nearly a ton of daily panda droppings 300°C Temperature at which the dung is sterilized under a new plan to use it for profit. It's then made into odor-free souvenirs like an Olympic-themed panda statue
...criminals in the old Gaza than by religious conservatives today. Rumors that Hamas is ordering barbers not to shave beards are just that. I got mine shaved off by Hossein Hussuna, the barber of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, who told me that most of Haniya's eight sons are clean shaven...
Among the laundry list of inconveniences most of us can't abide: cold coffee, airport delays, the high price of gasoline. Our complaints about them are loud and long. But how about the dearth of clean, accessible public bathrooms in the U.S.? Surely each of us knows the desperation of being stranded without a bowl when we needed it most. And yet it's a predicament that we quietly cross our legs and accept...
...wonder what it says about our country and culture that we don't take responsibility, individually or collectively, for having clean facilities for people to use," says Steven Soifer, a professor of social work at the University of Maryland and a co-founder of the ARA. Soifer contends that the first step to improving our toilet deficit is to start a national potty discourse: "Ninety-eight percent of Americans don't know the laws regarding the use of public toilets and 80% of businesses do not know," he says...
Athletes who misbehave are a shame but not a surprise. But referees? Commish David Stern curtly confirmed that the NBA is cooperating with the FBI in sifting evidence that ref Tim Donaghy had bet on games, including some he officiated. Insisting that all other refs are clean, Stern denounced this "act of betrayal of what we know in sports as a sacred trust...