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  • 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

  • June 2008

    • Now They Can Boldly Go

      BBC  |  Jun 5, 08 3:47 AM CDT

      Now They Can Boldly Go

      (Newser) - A Russian astronaut worked like a space janitor for two hours to finally fix a toilet aboard the International Space Station yesterday, the BBC reports. The space shuttle Discovery delivered a new pump for the broken toilet, which has dominated NASA press conferences. "It's something perhaps everyday people can relate to," said one NASA official. More »

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      NASA  • International Space Station  • Discovery space shuttle  • toilet  • Kibo  • Soyuz

  • May 2008

    • Houston, We Have a (Potty) Problem

      New York Times  |  May 27, 08 7:36 PM CDT

      Houston, We Have a (Potty) Problem

      (Newser) - The three-member crew aboard the International Space Station has a delicate problem—the toilet's on the fritz. The station's liquid-waste collector—a tricky system involving fans and the lack of gravity—is kaput, the New York Times reports. (The solid-waste collector still works.) Astronauts are working on a backup system and may get plumbing help when Discovery (with a crew of seven and its own toilet) launches Saturday. More »

  • 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

  • January 2008

    • New Yorkers Inaugurate First Public Loo

      New York Times  |  Jan 10, 08 6:09 PM CST

      New Yorkers Inaugurate First Public Loo

      (Newser) - If you can't hold it on the streets of New York, it's no longer necessary to sneak into a cafe john, the Times reports. The city opened the first of 20 pay toilets today, complete with a toilet-paper-cutting inauguration and "first-flush" ceremony. Until today, New York was one of the few cities that didn't help "people cope with so basic a need," one historian said. More »

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      New York City  • Madison Square Garden  • toilet  • toilet paper

    • German Woman Flushed Hubby Down the Toilet

      Der Spiegel  |  Jan 9, 08 6:30 PM CST

      German Woman Flushed Hubby Down the Toilet

      (Newser) - German police are searching for a woman they believe hacked up her husband and flushed the pieces down the toilet, Der Spiegel reports. Neither wife nor husband have been seen since just before Christmas, when neighbors report hearing hammering, strange noises, and repeated flushing. The woman reportedly told her grown children, “You won’t see him again, I flushed him down the toilet.” More »

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      murder  • crime  • Germany  • homicide  • toilet

  • September 2007

    • Technology Goes to the Toilet

      Time  |  Sep 15, 07 8:59 AM CDT

      Technology Goes to the Toilet

      (Newser) - In a country obsessed with both technology and cleanliness, it should be no surprise that  Japanese toilets set the standard for high-tech hygienic services, ranging from pre-warmed seats to artificial flushing sounds that drown out bodily noises without wasting water. More than 60% of all Japanese households are now equipped with smart bathrooms, called "washlets," Time reports, and they're catching on worldwide. More »

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      Japan  • technology  • hygiene  • toilet

  • July 2007

    • Highest Toilets In Europe Top Mont Blanc

      Der Spiegel  |  Jul 24, 07 10:39 AM CDT

      Highest Toilets In Europe Top Mont Blanc

      (Newser) - Now there's a new reason to climb Mont Blanc—to experience Europe's highest-altitude toilets. Local officials installed the facilities for the over 30,000 climbers who trek up the 14,000-foot peak each year. The mayor of a nearby town explained that local snow was becoming a few shades tawnier than usual. "It was urgently necessary," he said. More »

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      toilet  • Mont Blanc

    • 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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