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...Chinese sweatshops, citing four factories that have licenses to produce official Olympic goods. According to investigators, the companies employ children as young as 12 in double shifts and at low wages; the firms dock laborers a full day's pay for spending more than 15 minutes in the toilet; they also provide no gear to protect their employees against paint vapors, dust and cotton fibers in plants. The findings on the four Olympic licensees revealed an "appalling disregard for their workers health and for local labor laws," the report said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Targeting the Olympic "Sweatshops" | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...managing their biology, and no government or doctor should be involved in the decision to take it. Stripped of the moralizing rhetoric, it’s hard to see why requiring a prescription for the pill is any more justified than requiring permission for use of the flushing toilet...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Liberation (By Prescription) | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...assembly,” Cooperman writes in a 1980 Crimson article, “has an unimpressive record of past accomplishments—from free toilet paper to a rock concert—contributing to the widespread perception that it is little more than a plaything for ‘gov jocks...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 25 Years Later, The UC Endures | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...with the tube running into his arm," she says, pointing to the kang, a traditional brick sleeping platform found in most farmers' homes in this part of northeastern China. Yang and other family members insist that then 21-year-old Zhu Yanqiang couldn't even get to the toilet without help, much less sneak out to join in the brutal robbery-murder that took place some 40 km from the family's two-room farmhouse in the windswept hills outside the town of Chengde. Zhu, who sold vegetables in a nearby market, had gotten into a fight the previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Order | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...eclectic mix of ketchup, mustard, and grass stains as tie-dye. I’m ashamed to admit that one time I got so angry at my roommate over an argument concerning Harry Potter that I threw his shoes out the window and dunked his toothbrush in the toilet (he only knows about the shoes). While these private shames of mine are difficult for me to confess, the secret that I’m going to share with you today is something that is truly shocking for a Harvard student: I don’t get straight...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: Getting In is the Hardest Part | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

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