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...They just let me rot." BOB DOUGHERTY, Home Depot patron in Boulder, Colorado, on suing the company after store employees waited 15 minutes to respond to his cries for help?which they believed to be a hoax?in getting unstuck from a restroom toilet seat someone had smeared with glue
...comes to fundamental etiquette," concedes Chen Zhenmin, deputy director of the Shanghai Spiritual Civilization Office. In Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, local leaders have unveiled a campaign called "Be a Lovely Shanghainese" that instructs citizens to give up bus seats to the elderly, urinate directly into the toilet and refrain from stealing plants from parks. The campaign has recruited 800,000 volunteers to help direct Shanghai's chaotic traffic and asks civil servants not to dye their hair exotic shades like red, green or blue...
...Jackson wrote his brief in rhyme, releasing to the press such lines as, ''There, wiggling and squirming all over the place,/ Were oodles of maggots flavoring the taste.'' In another incident, he staged a protest of a power company's rate hike by symbolically tossing electric bills down a toilet while flushing sounds played in the background. In February 1992, Jackson turned his guns on Clinton when he unveiled a letter offering proof that Clinton had received an induction notice for the draft. Over the next few months, he told anyone who would listen -- including CNN'S Larry King -- that...
Through the fire door, we come to know our neighbors’ sleep schedules, the ups and downs of their love lives, their music tastes, and their relationships with their parents. We know when they flush the toilet, we know that they sing along to country music on Monday mornings and sneeze in threes...
...biogas digester," a simple, inexpensive device introduced to Yunnan by the Nature Conservancy (TNC) and catching on in other parts of the country, is cutting down on tree cutting. In place of a woodpile, the system gives homes a pigpen, toilet, greenhouse, underground tank and some rubber tubing. Waste--from the pigpen, the toilet and the odd kitchen scrap--ferments in the underground tank, heating the greenhouse and producing a steady stream of methane to power stoves and lamps. The greenhouse helps keep the tank warm in winter, and the by-product of the tank's digestion makes good fertilizer...