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Studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control's Healthy Aging Research Network suggest that lack of readily accessible restrooms is among the factors that can shape the exercise habits of seniors. No washroom, no workout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for the Right to Flush | 7/31/2007 | See Source »

...Pierer often clashed over strategy. In corporate Germany, a departing CEO often becomes chairman of the supervisory board. In the case of Siemens, Von Pierer simply moved across the hall to a new office in the executive suite, sharing his old secretary and staff and even the executive washroom with Kleinfeld. Von Pierer began to block Kleinfeld from taking more radical restructuring steps, say these insiders. In the end, Von Pierer had to fall on his sword, but one tantalizing theory is that Von Pierer made sure he took Kleinfeld down with him. "With Von Pierer, one of the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Siemens Goes Mega | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...ability to single-handedly operate a motor vehicle; it was, “Do you think the line will be too long today at the DMV?” The line is taking over America one skinny step at a time. Lining up to go to the washroom or to go to the lunchroom is the first thing I remember learning as a first-grader, and when someone did something especially commendable, the reward was always being named “line-leader”. We are conditioned to crave, love, and live the line. Lines can also...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, | Title: The Bottom Line | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...plane forward to use the lavatory in First Class. The FAM timed the man, dressed in a green jumpsuit with Arabic writing on it; he stayed about ten minutes in the toilet. Immediately after the man returned to the back to the plane, the FAM searched the washroom and found nothing. In contrast to Jacobsen's version, the FAM said at no time did any people congregate near the First Class bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Air Marshal's View of Flight 327 | 8/4/2004 | See Source »

...During his medical examination, Zhu excused himself to visit the washroom. There, according to state media reports, he leaped through a window that was open to the subfreezing weather outside, eluding a guard who grabbed at his legs but succeed only in pulling his trousers to his knees. Zhu, who was 57, fell nine meters and died instantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

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