Word: toileting
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...this year in Jaén the 800 hostel spaces have been overrun. The city of Ubeda has turned its municipal gym into an emergency shelter, while Cáritas oversees the Santa Clara facility. "It's crowded, there are no beds, a cold-water shower, and only one toilet," says Juan Carlos Escobedo, the local head of Cáritas. "But without it, we'd have 200 people sleeping on the street in three-degree weather...
...deteriorated. Going from Grand Rapids, Mich. to Jackson, Miss.? That will only involve an entire day shoehorned into "regional" jets apparently made in a region where all the people are 4 ft. 6. It was the reduced service to secondary markets that prompted some corporations to take action. Toilet-paper and Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark, for instance, created an airline, Midwest Express, in 1984 partly to compensate for the lack of service in Neenah, Wis. (its headquarters at the time) and to optimize the use of its owned or chartered planes. Midwest Express quickly became known for top-rated service...
...PNTL police posts within the Comoro district of the city's west, poorly equipped officers paid $125 a month live in tents without mosquito nets or proper toilets. At one post the single radio shared by eight men is broken, forcing them to call in reports on their personal mobile phones. At another post, responsible for a 4-sq.-km district, officers have no patrol vehicles and sprint to jobs on foot. "The U.N. is providing everything," says one UNPOL officer. "Even the toilet paper...
...goes further and deeper, and starts long before we know the meaning of a nickel. Children are natural curators, classifying their Barbies or Bakugan, holding on to Happy Meal toys until they have a full set. Freud had a theory about this: not surprisingly, it had to do with toilet training and the trauma of relinquishing a part of oneself. But it's not a need we outgrow. Over the course of his life and travels, Freud acquired more than 2,000 statues, vases and terra-cottas, plus some phalluses, of which his favorites stood...
...mentally inventory the attic, troll the tag sales, join the National Toothpick Holder Collectors Society. Once treasures were prized for their scarcity, but now mass production creates mass disposal and the chance to find worth in the weird and worthless: bottle caps and matchbook covers, swizzle sticks and toilet seats. (There's a toilet-seat-art museum in San Antonio, Texas.) Since objects of desire tend to hold some special meaning, they let people connect with the instant intimacy of shared fixation. If you doubt this, stop by modernmoisttowelette.com to compare notes about the world's best hand wipes...