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...First thing to consider when getting a pre-frosh is whether or not he/she is housebroken. When entering a vastly different environment, many pre-frosh will become confused and have accidents all over the place. Here is a time-worn technique for remedying the problem: Place a roll of toilet paper in the area where your pre-frosh first decides to do their business. Each day, move the roll closer to the common bathroom down the hall. Your pre-frosh should be able to find his/her own way within a week...

Author: By R.d. Ma, | Title: How to: Care for you Pre-Frosh | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...grown up Sassy gang? Are we to interpret it as the next logical step? Sassy made the world seem, to me, like a very small place--like a neighborhood filled with sisters who could give you a few pointers along the way and tell you if you had toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Looking at the world through the magazine's rose-tinted cat-eye glasses convinced me to hang in there, that new ideas and a hip new world were around every bend. Maybe I was just projecting my erstwhile wish for a big sister...

Author: By Jessica A. Nordell, | Title: Will the Real Jane Pratt Please Stand Up? | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...former state supreme court justice, Archer is known for long deliberation before he acts. Not much studying was required here: only half of Detroit's high school students graduate, most basic supplies--from textbooks to toilet paper--somehow have trouble making it into schools, and teachers routinely walk out on strike. While Archer has succeeded in reducing crime and luring Big Business since taking over as mayor in 1994, he says the city's decades-long flight of middle-class residents can't be reversed unless the city's schools get better. "Any mayor in the country will tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayors Rule The Schools | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...months. With no food or clothing, he can acquire goods only by winning them in magazine competitions. When he wins a million yens' worth, or $8,300, he will be set free. (He wins some dog food, for a while his only nourishment. And finally, after months--toilet paper!) He may not even know that the Japanese TV variety show sponsoring him, Susunu Denpa Shonen (Don't Go for It, Electric Boy!), is airing his solitary confinement in 15-minute segments each Sunday night. That's awful! That's sadistic! And, you admit with a grimace, that's entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tokyo Truman | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...will not have access to a modern shower or toilet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

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