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...addition, there are guides to classic art, modern art, castles, pubs, inns and festivals, as well as to 840 gardens and 245 battlefields. There is even a bathroom guide, Where to Go in London, which meticulously rates the city's leading public facilities as "Good (*), Unbeatable value (**), Worth traveling out of your way to experience (***), or Royal Flush (****)." (Only Royal Flush: the latrines at Victoria Station, "a Xanadu of hygiene...
Diet & Stress. In treating acne, Dr. Fisher prescribes antibiotics to keep down the bacteria, and drains the pustules. He condemns the acne victim's bathroom ritual of pimple-squeezing as dangerous and likely to spread the infection. Dr. Fisher prescribes drying lotions to reduce the skin's oiliness, and he preaches the importance of soap-and-water cleanliness, plus germicides...
...attempted assassination by blowing up a city of 600,000. Weary of ruling, he orders an entire island evacuated and a colossal pleasure palace built there, in which the walls spout frosted-drink faucets, and his bed, at the flick of a button, will glide off to the bathroom...
...Wall Street brokerage house and, by necessity, partly like the French government's intelligence-hunting Deuxième Bureau. With a loan from Zurich's Swiss Credit Bank, he opened offices in his apartment: his staff used a bedroom and dining room, his secretary typed in the bathroom, and the mimeograph machine whirred in the kitchen. Eurofinance made a profit the second year, moved to its present elegant quarters on Paris' Avenue Hoche...
...Chinese worked with impressive togetherness. When, in the midst of negotiating sessions, one indicated that he had to go to the bathroom, all nine went. Turning down social invitations from their German hosts, the Chinese returned to their hotel each evening, gathered in a single room, and turned the radio up full-volume, presumably to frustrate eavesdroppers, as they discussed their day's work...