Word: restroom
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...Finally, after we held our standing-room-only interviews with the players and the coach, we got set to head out. The day was done, until another writer mentioned he needed to go to the restroom, only to find it...locked...
...held to a higher standard? -Chad Miller, COLOGNE, GERMANYAstronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities. I think Nowak should be admired for traveling across the country at night and not getting out of her car to put in gas or go to the restroom. It is not excusable, but it is understandable for an achiever to fall into a trap...
According to Prof. Katherine Anthony, a restroom expert at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the U.S. has a history of toilet-based discrimination. She says this country's lack of potty parity - equal speed of access to public restrooms - reinforces an unspoken social hierarchy. Men spend an average 30 seconds using the toilet, and women take an average of 90 seconds; most of us are intimately familiar with the waiting lines that form outside women's restrooms...
...least 50% more stalls available for women than for men. Other states and major cities like New York and Chicago have followed suit. "Unisex was a dirty word when they started this project in La Jolla," says Mary Coakley, who spearheaded the construction of an all-user-friendly beachfront restroom in San Diego. "But in the end everyone was really happy...
When members of the WTO meet for the World Toilet Summit later this fall in New Delhi, India, delegates will learn about the best global toilet practices, from developments in eco-sanitation to the latest offerings from the Restroom Specialist Training Course at the World Toilet College in Singapore, the only program in the world that teaches toilet design, maintenance and hygiene. Such topics may elicit the public's distaste, but that makes WTO president Jack Sim all the more adamant that his organization is necessary. "People go [to the bathroom] six times a day, yet they can't talk...