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...toilet overflow Thursday night in the men's bathroom of the Coop flooded the fourth floor, causing water to seep through several of the store's lower ceilings...
...room could be reached only by using a block and tackle to lift a 200-lb. concrete trapdoor hidden beneath a carpet. Then it was necessary to climb down a 7-ft. ladder to a narrow passage that led to the mini-dungeon. Though it had only a camp toilet, the room was equipped with ventilation and a closed-circuit TV that enabled Esposito to keep an eye on his living quarters upstairs...
...SPACE shuttle Endeavour includes launching a communications satellite, walking in space, chatting with students about weightlessness, ringing a tiny replica of the Liberty Bell to mark Clinton's Inauguration. Oh, and yes, they'll be trying out a new toothbrush holder (price: $200,000) and an improved space toilet that cost an astronomical $23 million...
...what makes Singapore work would hardly succeed in the individualist West. There are hefty penalties, vigorously enforced, on human foibles: littering ($625), failing to flush a public toilet ($94) or eating on the subway ($312). The sale of chewing gum was banned last year, and 514 people were convicted of illegally smoking in public. A drumbeat of official publicity regularly enjoins Singapore Man to be more industrious, more courteous, thinner, healthier. Last year the government attacked his habit of arriving fashionably late at Chinese banquets as "a growing problem with wide implications for national productivity...
What could be worse than a cold toilet seat in the morning? An eight-semester curriculum designed by the Committee on the Core Program...