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Bill Gates kicks off search for toilet of the future
Microsoft co-founder turned global philanthropist Bill Gates on Tuesday launched a search for a new toilet better suited to developing countries. The charitable foundation founded by Gates and his wife kicked off a “Reinvent the Toilet Fair” in Seattle and awarded prizes for promising innovations. “Toilets are extremely important for…
Oceanography professor: Mississippi river is the toilet of North America
Jeremy Jackson, Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, described the mouth of the Mississippi as “the bowl of the toilet of North America” during a speech at the California Academy of Sciences in September. He explained that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was only one…
Mich. woman can sue over toilet paper dispenser
Mich. justices say woman whose hand was broken by toilet paper dispenser can sue restaurant A Michigan woman says she can’t work or crochet and her bowling game has suffered since her right hand was broken by a toilet paper dispenser in a restaurant bathroom. The Michigan Supreme Court, in…
Flush human rights: Activist stocks campus bathrooms with torture toilet paper
Human rights are getting flushed down the toilet over and over again. Literally. In an attempt to draw attention to the practices of former Bush adviser John Yoo, an activist at the University of California Berkeley School of Law installed toilet paper printed with the United Nations Convention Against Torture…
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