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...keep making these very childish and immature sexual advances towards a girl who may or may not be spunky and may or may not be from Texas and may or may not be blonde. Of course she keeps rebuking these advances. My sex life is really in the toilet right...

Author: By Sara J. Culver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR SARA | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...comfort vary. In many shukubo, a thin futon, a chaff-filled pillow and nothing but paper doors between you and the next snoring pilgrim are the norm. But others can be surprisingly refined, with delicate flower arrangements, swirling calligraphy on the walls and views of carp ponds. Bathrooms and toilet facilities are typically communal. So are morning prayers. To rise at dawn for an hour-long ceremony may not be everyone's path to enlightenment, but guests are expected to attend. For good measure, some temples offer classes in meditation, calligraphy, flower arranging and vegetarian cooking. Opportunities to sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heavenly Night's Rest | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

...first in Banja to build a pit latrine three years ago. It's a simple affair: a hole in the ground, 1 m across and 3 m deep, covered with a concrete slab and surrounded by mud walls, a thatched roof and a bamboo door. Outside the toilet is a plastic watering can, which Worku has jerry-rigged to dispense a trickle of water for flushing. His neighbors, he says, "came and asked me why I built it and how it worked ... I told them what I had learned and they listened and then went home and built their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Simple Solution | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...hope you all are doing well. If you want to do something for me, kiss a cop, flush a toilet, and drink a beer. I'll try to write again before too long - I promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Letter From Iraq | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...like chocolate milk shakes?" Sitting on the toilet in my room, I thought I was hearing voices. "Strawberry?" I looked up and saw a middle-aged man with brown hair and pasty complexion sticking his head into a partially open doorway. He introduced himself as Jim Mayer, better known as the "Milk Shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Angels of Ward 57 | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

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