Word: toileting
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...visit the room in person before you make a commitment to it for next year. Just because someone is currently living in it doesn’t mean you should be shy when you are inspecting it. Test the Internet connection. Lie down in the beds. Sit on the toilet. You can never be too exhaustive in your testing. Trust me, you don’t want to choose a suite only to discover next year when you move in that the toilet paper dispenser is eight feet away from the toilet itself...
...Toilet paper might not be the first thing one associates with environmental activism, but for Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, the two are inextricably linked. Last summer, Shope discovered that Kimberly-Clark, the company that supplied the majority of Harvard’s toilet paper, was not being environmentally friendly. “I found out that Kimberly-Clark source some of their materials from the boreal forest [in Canada],” Shope said. Shope approached Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) with a proposal to switch all the toilet paper on campus to 100 percent recycled products...
...like something from a World War II movie.” Determined not to “let them write [her] into their script,” she locks herself in a bathroom stall with only a book of poetry to read and a roll of toilet paper to write on. Her actions, absurdly juxtaposed with her basic need for survival, are both pointless and profound—but then again, so are those she sees outside. “I thought: the vanity of writing, the vanity of destruction,” she says. “I thought...
...prisoners weren't the only ones living in fear. Junior officers barely opened their mouths. Ranking officers like Moyo would not grant me permission to visit the toilet or brush my teeth without approval from their superiors. "I am just a worker," I heard the police-station chief say. "There are people above me." The jailers' anxiety about their bosses made them even more determined to demand respect from their prisoners. Moyo considered my demand for a lawyer insulting. "I am educated," he said. "And you do not cooperate." The walls of his office made clear that the regime...
LARRY PAGE, Google co-founder and president, in a statement for an April Fool's Day prank in which a link posted on Google's home page connected to a site that supposedly offered consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems; Google called the program "Toilet Internet Service Provider...