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...ever been a commuter or a tourist, a jogger or a caregiver to small children, you can attest that there's a serious lack of public toilet facilities in America. "As if the need to go to the bathroom does not exist," travel expert Arthur Frommer once quipped. In Australia, by comparison, all 14,000 of the country's public facilities are accounted for on the electronic National Public Toilet Map, a project funded by the Department of Health and Aging...
...Monday, Democrats unveiled a plan that would place tighter restrictions on gifts from and travel paid for by lobbyists; force the disclosure of "bundled" campaign contributions; require that the content and sponsors of earmarks be listed on the Internet 48 hours in advance of a bill vote; and ensure that neither lawmakers nor their families financially benefit from those earmarks. It's that provision focusing on earmarks - measures that lawmakers have typically quietly inserted into legislation at the last minute to allot money for pet projects in their home states - that has drawn the loudest criticism from two conservatives...
...former Senators from lobbying Congress for two years after they have left. (It maintains the current rule that former Representatives be prevented from lobbying the House for one year.) Another section prevents former members who become lobbyists from using Congress' parking and gym privileges. Yet another requires that congressional travel paid for by outside groups be posted on the Internet. One of the most significant measures forces lawmakers to report all lobbyist-bundled contributions that total more than $15,000 every six months. While it is an admittedly weaker standard than a former draft, which would have placed the threshold...
During his time at Harvard, Stein cultivated his filmmaking skill set by acting and directing in Harvard theater productions and serving as the managing editor for Let’s Go travel guides...
...were captured by Taliban insurgents on a road south of Kabul, the Seoul government has had to ask Korean bloggers to back off from online attacks on the hostages. Critics were particularly incensed by photos posted of some of the young women missionaries posing in front of an Afghanistan travel advisory sign at Seoul's Incheon International Airport. Family members of the missionaries - as well as members of the Sammeul Community Church south of Seoul, which sent the mission - also issued public apologies for causing the country so much grief...