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Lines for Porta-Potties also led many tailgaters to illegally urinate in public...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Presence, Alcohol Mark Game Tailgate | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...There were just way too few Porta-Potties,” said Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05. β€œIt’s almost unreasonable to expect people to wait in line for half an hour to use the Porta-Potties...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Presence, Alcohol Mark Game Tailgate | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...living room, Knoxville's show, Jackass--it's named for the idiocy of the stunts performed on it--was MTV's most popular program ever. In it, Knoxville and his skateboarding pals would go on adventures like shooting one another with stun guns, sitting in a well-used Porta Potti while it is flipped upside down and competing in a hard-boiled-egg-eating-and-barfing contest. If you are of a certain gender and age, this is the funniest stuff in the world. Knoxville created a new kind of comedy, one in which he gets laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Art Of Jackass | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...Mizrahi and Carrie Fisher, respectively, women's cable network Oxygen has dispatched ice-cream trucks to cruise the streets of New York City and Los Angeles and give out specially labeled popsicles and vitamin waters touting the coming broadcasts. Procter & Gamble sent out a trailer of elegant, air- conditioned Porta Potties, complete with hardwood floors and aromatherapy candles, to state fairs last summer to extol the virtues of Charmin toilet paper. Bottled-water producer Evian paid to repair a run-down public pool in the London neighborhood of Brixton and tile the bottom with its brand name--a message that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S AN AD, AD, AD, AD World | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...measure that allows unjustly fired workers to get their jobs back rather than settle for financial damages. Labor leaders fiercely defend Article 18, which they say protects workers against arbitrary firings. The Red Brigades has a long history of striking against would-be labor-market reformers. Della Porta says the terror group believes that modernizers like Biagi represent "the left that has betrayed the working class." After the attack, the unions toned down their rhetoric and Berlusconi called for compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Red Brigades Return | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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