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...resident of Rindge Street reported that a suspicious person had entered her home on two occasions. A bike lock was switched and a toilet seat was left...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...crew of Cast Away is shooting "the moment." Hanks' emaciated, exposure-ravaged character, Chuck Noland, fleeing the island on which he's been marooned for four years after a plane crash, pounds through the surf and raises the sail: the wall of a portable toilet that washed ashore. (The sight, I am assured, is meant to be inspiring.) "There isn't much acting going on today," apologizes director Robert Zemeckis, who teamed with Hanks on 1994's Forrest Gump. It's more like boxing. Hanks clambers, panting, onto the command ship Aftershock, barking, "Big ones! Those were great!" Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saving Tom Hanks | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...First The Crimson, then the world! My mother will be so proud. She thought I was a little "slow" when I was a child. I used to sit in the corner and take my shoes on and off for hours at a time and make action figures out of toilet paper. They tried to buy me GI Joes, but I was like, "No, no, two-ply will be fine." They didn't bother with babysitters, they just gave me a couple of pots, some Puffs paper and a couple pairs of shoes. I didn't read till...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

Johannesburg Marathon, 1999 A runner sneaks into a portable toilet and switches numbers and clothes with his brother, then swaps outfits again and finishes the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running from the Law | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...chemical testing kits to cars. Gatto trained himself with books and videos and bought his own cell phone, cameras, video and tape recorders for preserving evidence. He learned all the tricks for detecting concealed improper discharges of waste. For example, he could put a green dye tablet into a toilet and rush outside to examine the water flowing into a storm drain. If it turned green, it meant that sewage was illegally running into the drain. He sat next to pipes throughout the night waiting for intermittent eruptions of toxic effluent. He busted apartment buildings, stores, car dealers, restaurants, bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handcuffed Cop | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

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