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...that the kitchen has been known to flood…with sewage. For reference, look at the infamous incident of February 2008, which spurred Resident Dean Gregg Peeples to e-mail residents with this solemn warning: “Until things are brought under control, every thing you flush or otherwise send down the drain in our building will end up in the basement.” Gross. Might as well throw in a mention of that hideous wall sitting right in the middle of the room, too. Really detracts from the rest of the beauty? I guess...
...That's why I've decided to save print journalism. My first idea was to get every reporter to switch beats and cover only cats doing funny things. Then I had some more Pom Wonderful, allowed the antioxidants to flush out my free radicals and came up with the perfect solution: product placement. (Read "How to Save Your Newspaper...
...years ago, the Chinese called it their "Going Out" strategy. State-owned companies in key industries were being encouraged by the government to plant the flag of Chinese capitalism around the world by purchasing stakes in foreign companies. China was booming, flush with cash and full of optimism - naive optimism, it turned out. In 2005, China National Offshore Oil Corp., China's oil and gas giant, tried to buy Unocal, the American oil company, and learned just how xenophobic Washington could be: the deal was called off after strident objections from congressional leaders. Two years later, Beijing's fledgling sovereign...
...During a brutal recession, you'd think a $90 lift ticket and two nights at a lodge would be a luxury. But luckily for ski-resort operators, the flakes have been flush this season. Most U.S. resorts are reporting above-average snowfalls. (Northstar-at-Tahoe, in the Sierras, clocked in with 3 ft. of new snow March 4-5.) So while revenues have slipped - particularly at retail shops and restaurants - fewer people are fleeing skiing than you'd think. Michael Berry, president of the National Ski Areas Association, an industry trade group, projects that total lift-ticket purchases will decline...
Toilet creations aren't new to China. The ancient Chinese may have been the first to use the throne - a flush toilet was found in a tomb of a Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 24) king - and they invented toilet paper in the 6th century. Modern Toilet owner Wang Zi-wei, 29, an ex-banker, got his idea from the Japanese robot cartoon character Jichiwawa, who loves to play with poop and swirl it on a stick. Inspired by that image, Wang began selling chocolate ice cream swirls on paper squat toilets. Customers loved them and wanted more...