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Even more sophisticated loos are on the way. TOTO is testing one that analyzes urine and reports blood pressure and heartbeat. For the harried commuter who has everything, the Minato Pharmaceutical Co. is marketing the portable Toilet Pot. It consists of a plastic bag that contains a coagulant and is aimed at victims of Tokyo's often intractable traffic jams. For travelers, a two-story suite of rest rooms called the Charm Station opened last spring in Udatsu-cho on Shikoku Island. It boasts six toilets with international motifs, including the Rose of Versailles, which features a white porcelain bowl...
...what candidate worth his matching funds would give up, even on a campaign as lifeless as this one has appeared? And by week's end the campaign's vital signs showed a continuing heartbeat and respiration. Dukakis was at last electioneering with something approaching passion, and winning favorable TV and press attention. A new spate of polls showed that Bush's lead had settled back to between 7 and 10 points, about the margin before the debate. This late in the game, that is a daunting but not quite hopeless deficit. Reasonably objective observers, some of them Republican, reached...
...campaign, both Bush and Dukakis peppered the debate with carefully chosen code words designed to camouflage their vulnerabilities. Bush, whose privileged background is alien to the life experience of most Americans, kept harping on the word values as he proclaimed that he was in tune with "the heartbeat of the country." For Dukakis, who often seems closer in spirit to Roger Rabbit than Rambo, his mantra was the adjective tough. Whether it was tackling the "tough choices" on domestic spending or the "tough and difficult decisions" on Pentagon weapons, Dukakis used the word to portray himself as possessing the macho...
That certainly was the impression formed in one west Toledo household, where Betty and Raymond Heitger invited about a dozen of their friends and neighbors over to watch the heartbeat-away sweepstakes. Betty, a registered nurse, and Raymond, a high school math teacher, were Bush backers. Many of their guests were the kind of blue-collar voters and nominal Democrats who may swing the election. Typical was Greg Kretz, a 30-year-old carpenter, who said before the debate, "I like the job Reagan has done, but I don't think that Bush has the same kind of leadership...
Beyond the questions about which corners Quayle cut as a young man lurked a far more relevant issue: whether he has the qualifications to be a heartbeat from the presidency. Placards at one appearance were succinctly cruel: SISSY RICH BOY and INTENSELY MEDIOCRE. Conservative Columnist George Will argued that Quayle desperately needed a "stature transfusion" and even set a deadline: by Labor Day the candidate should "be good or be gone" from the ticket. The Des Moines Register, a prominent editorial voice in the usually Republican heartland, called on Bush to drop Quayle. The New York Times said...