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...unload a couple of very strange items, which might be called knickknacks if they weren?t so staggeringly expensive and weird. First up, an eight-foot, bronze-plated Trojan horse, which apparently already sold for $1,470 (sorry, folks). He?s also auctioning off a slew of gold-plated toilet paper holders, trash cans, Jacuzzis and shower heads. If you?re not into anything that flashy, you can go for the more tasteful marble Jacuzzis, each of which will reportedly run you only $300. Also up for grabs: A full-size pool table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Brunei, I'm Gearing up for the Sale of the Century! | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...after Dolores moved into the Eagan center in March 1999, at a cost of $3,450 a month, Peter's wife Bonnie, who visited regularly, noticed that Dolores' only "life enrichment" was watching television in her rocking chair. Nor was Dolores receiving the help she needed in visiting the toilet. On several visits, Bonnie found her mother-in-law's feces smeared on the bedroom floor and walls, in Dolores' hair, on her face, on her toothbrush. Then Dolores began to fuss incessantly with her feet. The Levangs thought they had arranged, through the center, for an outside service called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Than A Nursing Home? | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...facilities had been cited for five or more quality-of-care violations in a two-year period and that 11% had been cited for 10 or more violations. HHS's new national study will point to more evidence of widespread neglect: 26% of residents surveyed who needed help with toilet use sometimes didn't receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Than A Nursing Home? | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...show about a kid who inherits his uncle's private eye agency. The moment the kid moves in, a toilet flushes and out pops his uncle. The kid shacks up with the lady upstairs in his apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aaron Spelling | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from 1950 to 1956; near Port-au-Prince. The former general who overthrew civilian President Dumarsais Estime in 1950 oversaw Haiti's most marked period of prosperity, the result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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