Word: toileting
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...functional space, but that hasn't stopped designers and architects from turning the humble toilet into a room of surprises. With breathtaking vistas, wacky themes or lavish materials, there are rest rooms out there that'll make you feel like a million bucks each time you spend a penny...
...TAICHUNG In Taiwan's third-largest city, the Chung Yo department store boasts 13 themed toilets, incorporating everything from pop-art and Baroque motifs to toilets designed to resemble a jungle or aquarium. Each toilet cost a cool $30,000 to install...
...HONG KONG They don't come more opulent than the facilities at the 3D-Gold Store?officially the world's most expensive toilet and bathroom. Every fixture, from the two commodes to the sinks and toilet-roll holders, is made of solid gold. It's all in working order, but nothing is actually used?visitors must content themselves with perching on a toilet and having a Polaroid taken for $2.50. With construction of the bathroom having cost $4.9 million, it'll take a lot of photos to recover the cost...
...have long complained that a 1996 law designed to protect small retailers has hiked prices. Last week Sarkozy agreed, but instead of changing the "Galland law," he brokered a deal between retail chains and suppliers that will cut the price of some 4,000 items, from baby food to toilet paper, by an average of 2% in September and another 1% in January. Sarkozy hailed the deal as a "significant" reduction that will aid consumers. Consumer group UFC-Que Choisir disagrees, arguing that the law should go. In practice, UFC says, the law prevents retailers from passing supplier discounts...
...break beats and a few nice string samples, they shout out lines that merge grade school, grad school and old school. On Oh Word? Horovitz raps, "You gotta get up awful early to fool Mr. Furley/And that's word to Aunt Shirley/And you could stick your head in the toilet, give yourself a swirley." Yauch swiftly follows: "Like Ernest Shackleton said to Ord-Lees,/ 'I'll have dog pemmican with my tea.'" When the rhymes flow, the ideas buried within go down more smoothly, and on All Life Styles, their vision of hipster utopianism sounds both typically juvenile and wonderfully...