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Galluccio also ran for the senate seat last year when Barrios was running for Middlesex district attorney, but backed out amidst drunk driving allegations and after Barrios vacated the prosecutor’s race to stand for reelection...
Galluccio’s departure will mark the second retirement of a veteran councillor this year in Cambridge, as seven-termer Michael A. Sullivan announced in August that he would resign. Galluccio had previously pledged to leave the council after the November election if he won the senate seat...
Maher ran strongly in many of the same areas as Galluccio and Sullivan during the 2005 city council election, and could benefit from loyalty to his family—which has held a seat on the city council since...
...even greater luxury was the thoughtfully pre-warmed toilet seat. Then came a disturbing discovery: Even though the other stalls were occupied, mine was the only one from which pee sounds were audible. All around me, I heard a great Zen-like steam of rushing water, but nary a human tinkle. I stopped mid-stream, overtaken by a sudden case of lavatory fright. In the land of toilets so fancy they sport buttons that manufacture artificial "flushing sounds," I had apparently committed a serious bathroom faux...
...Japanese bathrooms are the apotheosis of the nation's fascination with both cleanliness and high-tech gadgetry. The toilet at Tokyo Midtown may have been a rather basic model of what is called a "washlet," but its options included a warmed seat, bidet cleansing, spray cleansing (a rather different angle and spray from the bidet option), a "powerful deodorizer" and, of course, the "flushing sound" with adjustable volume. The last function is also ecologically friendly. Before the advent of the artificial running-water noise, many Japanese would camouflage the sound of their ablutions by flushing, thereby wasting tons of water...