Word: showers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rising tide of assaults has created a rippling pool of fear. Some teachers now send little girls to the bathroom in pairs. Young women say they are afraid to take a shower or run the hair dryer; the noise could mask an assailant's approach. At college parties, many coeds clutch their cocktail glasses, worried that knockout drops could be slipped into their drinks...
Denial has long been my preferred route for dealing with my shattered illusions. When I first unpacked Blankie and put him on my pillow, my roommates thought they were living with a diseased human being. "What is it?" they asked. "A shower mat? A huge used hankerchief?" I told them it was my pride...
...donated the pieces to charity and erected a Moroccan palace with five domes, an art gallery, ten baths and two reflecting pools. "We would have liked larger reflecting pools, like the Taj Mahal," explains general contractor David Conrad, whose desk is a marble slab that was once Reagan's shower, "but the street...
...tried reasoning with them. I've tried bribes. I've even threatened to take the glop off the shower drain and throw it in their beds. One night I was so frustrated that I thought back to what my father would do when my siblings and I made too much noise late at night...
...worrisome exceptions. Radon, a radioactive gas that gets into the air from soil and rocks, is also present in some water supplies. Rick Cothern, a member of the EPA's Science Advisory Board, points out that when the contaminated water pours out of a tap or shower head, the radon can pass into the air inside a home. He believes that radon from water may cause a few hundred cases of cancer each year. Those cases might be prevented if municipalities or homeowners installed equipment designed to aerate water -- and thus remove radon -- before it enters houses...