Word: toilet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter to a friend he wrote, "He really does look surprisingly appetizing and has sausage fingers just like mine." Dad took over baby-bathing duties enthusiastically, but when the terrible twos struck, the bathroom became a war room. Wills started breaking things, flushing his father's shoes down the toilet, and for the next few years was obstreperous and mouthy...
...about time a magazine flushed out the news about the politically correct but poorly performing low-flow toilet [SCIENCE, July 1]. My experience is that the new toilets are an embarrassment to our technically advanced society. Why does one have to reflush to remove floating stuff that just didn't wash away the first time, only to flush again and get some new surprises? And a person cannot go away for a few days without making sure everything got flushed away, or he may risk returning to a house that has a new odor. Looks like environmentalists had better...
...family's solution to the low tide in toilet bowls is the plunger: don't go home without it. HOWARD F. STEIN Bethany, Oklahoma...
...hardly unique. Thousands of frustrated flushers have joined what is turning into a low-flow-toilet revolt. In Maryland homeowners are picking up large-capacity models at yard sales. Affluent Angelenos are buying two toilets: a new 1.6-gal. low-flow for show and an old 3.5-gal. tank that they install after the building inspector leaves. "It's been my biggest call-back," says contractor David Leonard of Indianapolis, Indiana. One customer required seven trips to service a perpetually clogged low-flow. "I don't know what this guy eats," says Leonard, "but we keep having to plunge...
...Toilet manufacturers, who had pushed for uniform federal standards after water-poor states started setting their own, admit they were slow to find good low-flow designs. But their latest models use various tricks--wider pipes, extra air pressure--to make up in flush power what they lack in volume. That, say bowlmakers, should eliminate most complaints...