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...humanity), booths touting the environmental credentials of multinational oil companies stood beside those of tiny green groups. One promoted the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi as environmentally friendly. "Gandhi was green 100 years ago," said a woman behind the counter. Another displayed recyclable oil filters that use an ingenious toilet-paper-like roll to trap particles. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University nestled in next to Sustainable Switzerland. A group promoted condom use to stop the spread of aids. A woman from the Haida Indian community in western Canada touted a cd-rom that outlined the importance of maintaining her culture...
...York City and Los Angeles and give out specially labeled popsicles and vitamin waters touting the coming broadcasts. Procter & Gamble sent out a trailer of elegant, air- conditioned Porta Potties, complete with hardwood floors and aromatherapy candles, to state fairs last summer to extol the virtues of Charmin toilet paper. Bottled-water producer Evian paid to repair a run-down public pool in the London neighborhood of Brixton and tile the bottom with its brand name--a message that was hard to miss for passengers flying in and out of nearby Heathrow Airport...
...washed-out olive green, and Tang's jewel-toned works lean against furniture and walls with a deceptive casualness?precisely where they will be noticed most. In contrast, Guo Haiping's studio in the city center is haphazardly filled with his signature finger-painted monochromes and random objects?a toilet hangs on the entrance room wall, covered from top to bottom with Guo's red fingerprints...
...palace anymore," says Najah Zakari, the mother of one of six large families that squeeze into quarters once meant for a single household. "Do you think they'd let people like us live in a real palace?" She beckons to the spiral stone staircase, past the reeking squatting-toilet, to her apartment, where she offers mint tea. Her husband, 70, is out, pushing a delivery trolley for $2 a day, too proud to let his unemployed sons do the heavy work...
Built in just 147 days, the Monitor was a total innovation from bow to stern-including a flush toilet below the waterline...