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...took two breaths. I was sure the building would be bombed. I looked for stairs. I kept thinking I needed clean air. I found a bathroom. I didn't realize I wanted water until it was there. Four men inside. Two fighting over the faucet. I shared the toilet with another man. We drank almost the whole bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Penelope Trunk, Columnist, Business 2.0 | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

This certainly sounds like an alien world where up is down, left is right, and all that America theoretically holds dear is flushed down the toilet along with the turkey and stuffing...

Author: By Emma R.F. Nothmann, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Understanding Asia | 9/11/2001 | See Source »

...called a "psychedelic pink-and-lime-green hand grenade." Snapple is using it in a new "smart drink" line called Elements, but the real thing is also "going to be tremendous," says Meyer. Not as promising is the durian of Southeast Asian, which the farmer says "smells like a toilet but tastes wonderful." Um, thanks, but we'll stick to contemplating our navel oranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exotic Fruit | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...tling of the locked latch and a slow retreat. For the dungeon scenes in a magnificent version of "The Count of Monte Cristo," Welles (Edmond Dantes) and Collins (the Abb?) lay on the CBS men?s room floor and spoke into a micro-phone at the base of the toilet seat, while the toilet?s flushing suggested waves breaking against the prison walls. Welles had used the same trick in "Les Mis?rables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...each book or CD being peddled. Authors are also encouraged to write about their works. In 1999, this notice for the sound track of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" appeared, signed by the score?s composer John Williams: "I remember writing Anakin?s Theme. I was sitting on the toilet, watching General Hospital, when all of a sudden I turned. The water plops brought together a syncopated harmony that I found to be ? obviously the theme of the boy who will one day become Darth Vader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Web, the Masses are Critical | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

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