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  • August 2008

    • Burger King Bather in Hot Water

      WDTN Dayton  |  Aug 12, 08 5:03 PM CDT

      Burger King Bather in Hot Water

      (Newser) - Diners in Ohio are feeling queasy after an internet video surfaced yesterday showing a young man taking a bath in a local Burger King’s sink. In the video, employees and a store manager watch a heavily tattooed “Mr. Unstable” relax in a bubble bath. Burger King reps tell WDTN of Dayton the employees involved have been fired and the sink sanitized—twice. More »

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      public health  • Ohio  • restaurant  • fast food  • hygiene  • bathroom

  • July 2008

    • Amid Selloff, Gold King Won't Flush His Throne

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 7, 08 2:53 PM CDT

      Amid Selloff, Gold King Won't Flush His Throne

      (Newser) - With gold prices hovering around $1,000 an ounce, one Hong Kong jeweler is melting down the shining palace he spent a decade building, unloading chandeliers and armored knights—everything but his 24-karat toilet, the Wall Street Journal reports. "I don't care if gold hits $10,000 an ounce," Lam Sai-wing says of the Lenin-inspired commode. "I'm not melting it down." More »

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      commodities  • Hong Kong  • gold  • jewelry  • toilet  • bathroom

  • March 2008

    • Poo-Poo to Navel-Gazing: Look Lower

      Salon  |  Mar 12, 08 9:00 PM CDT

      Poo-Poo to Navel-Gazing: Look Lower

      (Newser) - Poop isn't just joke fodder, Leslie Crawford writes in Salon, it can also be a vital way to assess your health and well-being, and Americans are being prompted to scrutinize (and rhapsodize over) what they produce in a variety of media. From Oprah to the popular book What's Your Poo Telling You? , the virtues of a good bowel movement might never have been more widely extolled. More »

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      health  • Oprah Winfrey  • toilet  • bathroom  • poop  • toilet paper

  • February 2008

    • Germaphobes Get a Handle on Bathrooms

      Wall Street Journal  |  Feb 15, 08 2:40 PM CST

      Germaphobes Get a Handle on Bathrooms

      (Newser) - For germaphobes, few sights elicit as much terror as doorknob in a public bathroom. Sure, you washed your hands, “but then someone else didn’t wash their hands and you have to touch the same door handle,” explains the inventor of the SanitGrip, an L-shaped, elbow-operated handle that helps just-cleaned hands stay that way. And he's not the only one grabbing the hygienic opportunity, the Wall Street Journal notes. More »

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      bacteria  • toilet  • bathroom  • inventions  • restrooms  • bathroom hygiene

  • September 2007

    • Americans Neglect to Wash Their Hands

      Reuters  |  Sep 17, 07 5:22 PM CDT

      Americans Neglect to Wash Their Hands

      (Newser) - Americans are forgetting to wash their hands. A new study shows that only 77% of people wash their hands after using public restrooms—that's down 6% from two years ago. And notably, 92% of Americans SAY they do. Unsurprisingly, men are the big offenders: their number was 66%. "Very clearly, guys need to step up to the sink," says a soap industry spokesman. More »

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      health  • Americans  • hygiene  • bathroom

    • Standing Up for Bathroom Diversity

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 1, 07 4:20 PM CDT

      Standing Up for Bathroom Diversity

      (Newser) - Why can't a man have a urinal in his home? Screenwriter Joel Stein sought to fulfill his lifelong dream but then ran into a neighbor who “explained that urinals, to my shock, gross women out.” Unsanitary lidlessness, along with an unfortunate name—which conjures the word “crapinals”—are only part of the problem, Stein writes. The fact is, urinals “are simply too aggressively male.” More »

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      men  • bathroom  • Joel Stein

    • College Johns Go Coed

      Boston Globe  |  Sep 1, 07 1:18 PM CDT

      College Johns Go Coed

      (Newser) - When students return to Emerson College in Massachusetts this month, they’ll be greeted by silhouettes of a man and woman on a single sign outside some two-dozen campus restrooms. In response to growing transgender discomfort with single-sex bathrooms, many colleges are making their johns gender-neutral, the Boston Globe reports. More »

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      transgender  • bathroom  • restrooms  • Tufts University

  • July 2007

    • Mystery Man Dumps Cash in Bathrooms

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 12, 07 12:02 PM CDT

      Mystery Man Dumps Cash in Bathrooms

      (Newser) - The yen is in the toilet once again. Someone has left over 400 bundles, each containing about $80 worth of the stuff, in men's bathrooms all over Japan. The cash is being discovered in the powder rooms of government offices, along with notes enjoining the lucky gentleman who finds the wad to "do only good deeds." More »

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      Japan  • philanthropy  • bathroom  • Yen

    • China Opens Giant Public Loo

      Associated Press  |  Jul 7, 07 4:28 PM CDT

      China Opens Giant Public Loo

      (Newser) - Time for tourists to ditch the Great Wall and head for the city of Chongqing in southwest China, which recently opened a startling new attraction: a sprawling public restroom. The free facilities lie behind an Egyptian facade that conceals 1,000 toilets spread over four stories and almost 33,000 square feet. "We are spreading toilet culture," one official tells the AP. More »

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      China  • toilet  • bathroom  • restrooms  • bathroom hygiene

  • April 2007

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