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...JACK SIM, president of the Singapore Restroom Association, announcing a new five-star "Happy Toilet" rating campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...everyone takes their seats, it is time to sell each audience member an aptly named “Bag of Shit.” The soon-to-be graduates raise their dollars high for one of the brown bags filled with Rocky Horror essentials: rice, party hats, toilet paper and noise makers...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I Wish . . . | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

HUSBAND. A well-meaning individual often found reading a newspaper. Believes that when the toilet paper runs out it is restocked by the Toilet-Paper Fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Working Mother's Day, from A to Z | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...TOILET-PAPER FAIRY. Imaginary figure who works miracles around the house--filling ice-cube trays, putting socks into drawers. See also, Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Working Mother's Day, from A to Z | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...desperately poor areas, the barefoot doctors of Chairman Mao's era might prove to be a more workable model. Gongdong township in Guangxi is a cluster of remote villages three hours' drive from the nearest paved road or flush toilet. Calcite in Gongdong's water causes kidney stones in residents and a lack of iodine in their diet makes goiters common. For the past six years, the French aid agency M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) has trained the village doctors and midwives to treat minor injuries and illnesses with a basic stock of drugs, while referring serious cases to a township...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Failing Health System | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

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