Word: swirling
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...roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings. Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mini toilet bowl (quite convenient, as it brings the food closer to your mouth), you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish shaped like a squat toilet. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...tomb of a Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 24) king - and they invented toilet paper in the 6th century. Modern Toilet owner Wang Zi-wei, 29, an ex-banker, got his idea from the Japanese robot cartoon character Jichiwawa, who loves to play with poop and swirl it on a stick. Inspired by that image, Wang began selling chocolate ice cream swirls on paper squat toilets. Customers loved them and wanted more edible excretion experiences, so he opened Modern Toilet in 2004. The theme-restaurant chain now has seven outlets in Taiwan, one in Hong Kong...
Mohamed wasn't there; he is still far too fragile to face press and public. Indeed, he has always been the absence at the heart of his own story, a complex swirl of accusations and counter-claims. Arrested in Pakistan in 2002, Mohamed was allegedly subject to rendition to Morocco and Afghanistan, before ending up in Guantánamo. U.S. officials said he had trained at terror camps and planned a dirty bomb campaign. Last May the Pentagon formally charged Mohamed with conspiring to commit terrorism and war crimes. The charges were dropped five months later, but not before Mohamed...
...Mentana vigorously denies any deal has been done, but it's not hard to see why such rumors swirl. Just last month, Sky Italia recruited Rosario Fiorello, one of Italy's top television entertainers, to present a new variety show. Fiorello has worked for both Mediaset and state-owned television and radio network RAI. Before Fiorello's Sky Italia's deal was signed, Berlusconi invited the Sicilian singer-impersonator to his Rome palazzo to convince him not to work for "the enemy," according to Fiorello. The wooing session failed. (See pictures of the good life in Italy...
...Harvard College Democrats, Harvard Republican Club, and the Institute of Politics—the irony is particularly profound, of course. For Harvard’s future politicos, November 5th marked the beginning of the preseason. And only a week later, the rumors are already beginning to swirl...