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...Arroyo revels in the details of the job, describing herself as "a plodder, not a highflyer." Her staff have come to expect her customary late-night phone calls demanding updates on even the most picayune government projects: bridge repairs, toilet construction, the delivery of a bulldozer. After one year in office, she says, "by and large, I'm on track." Yet Arroyo, like the Philippines at the moment, is fluttering in an uncertain sky, trying to set a course but too often buffeted by forces that appear far more powerful than she. Poverty reigns, and government programs are hampered...
...With up to 400,000 spectators descending on South Korea for this summer's World Cup and kimchi?or maybe even some dogmeat?on the menu, the only thing that may be more stressed than the stomachs of gastronomically challenged visitors will be the state of the nation's toilets. Fortunately, the South Koreans are more than prepared. If you find your World Cup toilet in Seoul is less than world class, don't hesitate to call Loo 911. Seoul Metropolitan Government's Toilet Improvement Task Force promises to swirl into action, descending upon the offending facility. Once the porcelain...
That's where the real trouble begins. Campylobacter is a major cause of food poisoning in humans. Less than diligent hand washing or improperly cooked meat could park you on the toilet for the next few days. And if you're sick enough to need medical treatment, you might be out of luck. Chicken Cipro is so closely related to human Cipro that any germ that has become resistant to the animal drug can shrug off the human one just as easily. Before 1996, when enrofloxacin was approved in the U.S. for use in poultry, the number of Campylobacter infections...
...shopping opportunity of the century? Call it what you will, but the auction in Brunei to help pay off the massive debts of the Sultan's naughty playboy brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, was the tackiest display of useless extravagance ever assembled. If your shopping list included gold-plated toilet-brush holders, 8,500 slabs of Italian marble and an attack-helicopter simulator, you were in luck. The citizens of Brunei were not: in a victory for good taste, the auction raised a paltry $8 million...
...come to children's books. There were at least three titles in 2001 that deconstructed nursery rhymes. This is the most deliciously icky, populated with comically dyspeptic characters and the cleverest plays on the original rhymes ("Young King Cole was a terrible troll:/ He washed his feet in the toilet bowl"). Warning: There are some lines parents probably will not want to hear over and over...