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Toilets Take the Back Seat in the Third World

May 25, 1998

courtesy of Time Magazine, May 25, 1998

FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS IN THE info age, it’s a question of priorities: Do you want a working toilet or do you want the World Wide Web? Many seem to be choosing the Web. Access to adequate sanitation facilities in Latin America and Asia is falling while Web use …

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UP DOWN – The GREAT Toilet Seat Debate

April 1, 1998

courtesy of Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1998
Ann Landers, Advice Column

Dear Ann: This is in response to “Louisville,” who joined the national debate about whether the toilet seat should be left up or down. In my house, you put the lid down. This prevents the dog from drinking out of it, klutzes like me from dropping …

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