Word: toileting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They say democracy is about choice, and returning residents of three residential Houses found their toilet-draining options doubled when they returned to Cambridge this year: Eliot, Kirkland, and Dunster Houses installed dual-flush handles in an initiative to reduce water waste. A standard downward push uses a mere 1.6 gallons, a standard amount for a low-flow toilet. But bathroom-goers will be able to save even more water with an upward push on the handle—let’s call it “flush number one”—which is intended...
...with many autistic children, the skills Luke was acquiring in the classroom were not very portable. (Learning how to use the toilet at school, for example, didn't translate into his knowing how to use one anywhere else.) Alarmed by his regression at home, the Perkinses in late 2003 enrolled Luke in a Boston boarding school renowned for its success with autistic children. And because federal law requires school districts to provide an extended school day and even residential services if a special-education student needs them, his parents informed Colorado's Thompson school district it had to pick...
...came upon Boston Higashi. The school uses rigorous exercise to get autistic children to start eating and sleeping regularly. And once those biorhythms are on track, students can begin to acquire basic living and academic skills. Within four months of being at Higashi, Luke went home for vacation mostly toilet trained. He has since conquered such complex tasks as riding a unicycle and walking on stilts--activities that have given him confidence to try other new things. "I do think he can have a life that's happy and maybe even productive," Jeff says. "If we had left...
Harvard students, always clamoring for more choice, are now flush with options when it comes to their bathroom activities. Over the summer, all bathrooms in Kirkland, Eliot, and Dunster Houses were outfitted with brand new toilets that now include water-conserving flushing handles, or “flushometers.” The dual-flush handles—painted a bright green—can be pulled up for liquid waste, releasing only 1.1 gallons of water per flush, or they can be pulled down for solid waste, releasing 1.6 gallons of water per flush. According to Jay M. Phillips...
...Marry When I Want, a play that critiques Kenya's neocolonial society. After it was performed, the theater was burned to the ground and Ngugi thrown in jail. He was released a year later - thanks to Amnesty International - with a new novel, Devil on the Cross, written on prison toilet paper. While in England to launch the book in 1982, he heard rumors that he would be arrested again if he went back to Kenya. He and his family went into self-imposed exile, moving from England to the U.S. and finally settling in California. Now he teaches English...