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  • n  a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building
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  • Comment of the Day: "Making that long corridor L-shaped doesn't...
    Making that long corridor L-shaped doesn't solve the problem that the powder room is isolated from living spaces and you have to trek down a windowless corridor to get into the apartment. In my ideal world, free from the constraints... http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/04/comment_of_the_day.php Curbed New York 2013-09-04 21:38:54 yboss 103442 powder room 140445 103442 A Split–Personality Mirror Made For Sharing The Bathroom There's a scene in Grease where the whole gang––T–Birds and the Pink Ladies––are at a drive–in movie theater, and some of the Ladies hit the powder room. There, no one appears to be in the stalls: instead, a throng of high school girls is toggling in front of the mirror, elbowing each other for a spot so they can re–apply their Coca–Cola–bottle–red lipstick. It's a few decades too late for Rizzo ... http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016626/a-split-personality-mirror-made-for-sharing-the-bathroom?partner=rss Fast Company Magazine 2013-09-03 18:12:37 yboss 117473 semiprivate 140446 117473 WANTED: LRG. 2bdrm or 3bdrm hm or townhouse to rent WANTED: LRG. 2bdrm or 3bdrm hm or townhouse to rent, Responsible mother desperately seeking housing immediately. Just moved from 20yrd in AK. NS/NP, GR area, semiprivate-quite area. Would do housesitting for winter months Ref. available, PLS help 907-209-5698 http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/classifieds/housing/rent/home/ad_22599f4a-eb5b-5400-a33e-0bea03723f1e.html Grand Rapids Herald-Review 2013-09-06 19:25:09 yboss 89765 new penny 140447 89765 Critics knock $669,608 cost for state Capitol doors: ‘It doesn’t look right’ SPRINGFIELD — Go to Home Depot or Lowe’s and look for a set of exterior doors for your home or business, and the cost likely wouldn’t exceed a few thousand dollars. But if you’re looking for the kind of copper-coated doors that give the gaudy shine of a brand-new penny to three entrances to the state Capitol, forget about finding those in a strip shopping mall or paying anything less than what a ... http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/22360648-505/critics-knock-669608-cost-for-state-capitol-doors-it-doesnt-look-right.html Chicago Sun-Times 2013-09-05 00:06:49 yboss 89765 new penny 140448 89765 Critics knock $669,608 state Capitol doors: ‘It doesn’t look right’ SPRINGFIELD — Go to Home Depot or Lowe’s and look for a set of exterior doors for your home or business, and the cost likely wouldn’t exceed a few thousand dollars. But if you’re looking for the kind of copper-coated doors that give the gaudy shine of a brand-new penny to three entrances to the state Capitol, forget about finding those in a strip shopping mall or paying anything less than what a ... http://www.suntimes.com/22360648-505/critics-knock-669608-state-capitol-doors-it-doesnt-look-right.html Chicago Sun-Times 2013-09-04 21:13:08 yboss 132911 tidal river 140449 132911 Bayou Vermilion Guided Boat Tours Open This Weekend LAFAYETTE, La. - The Bayou Vermilion District is pleased to announce the opening of their fall boat tour season starting this Saturday, September 7. The fall boat tour season begins the first Saturday in September and goes through the last Saturday in November. Visitors can experience Lafayette like they never have before-on a traditionally built bateau cruising the tidal river known as the ... http://www.katc.com/news/bayou-vermilion-guided-boat-tours-open-this-weekend/ KATC 3 Lafayette 2013-09-04 22:56:51 yboss 143845 western diamondback 140450 143845 Rattlesnake bites Port Lavaca businessman A 5-foot western diamondback rattlesnake bit prominent Port Lavaca businessman Russell Cain in his yard about 5 p.m. Sunday. http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2013/sep/04/russell_cain_ew_090513_218915/ The Victoria Advocate 2013-09-05 01:53:26 yboss 29450 contralateral 140451 29450 MRI right before or after surgery does not benefit women with early breast cancer ( Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ) A Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center study shows that the use of MRI before or immediately after surgery in women with DCIS was not associated with reduced local recurrence or contralateral breast cancer rates. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-09/mscc-mrb090413.php EurekAlert! 2013-09-04 21:25:50 yboss 29077 conservative jew 140452 29077 A kosher kitchen compromise My boyfriend of four years and I finally decided to move in together. But there was one problem: What to do about the kitchen. Dov was raised in a Conservative Jewish household in Los Angeles where milk and meat never mixed. http://www.jewishjournal.com/food/article/a_kosher_kitchen_compromise The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles 2013-09-04 23:19:33 yboss 24314 chitterlings 140453 24314 Fine dining at area churches Church of God in Christ, 760 W. King St., will sponsor a dinner sale today beginning at 11 a.m. Selections include meatloaf, $8; baked or fried chicken, $9; chitterlings, $10. http://staugustine.com/living/religion/2013-09-05/fine-dining-area-churches The St. Augustine Record 2013-09-06 02:34:45 yboss 135708 trouser leg 140454 135708 As Syria Implodes, Europe Braces for a Spiraling Refugee Crisis The bird shot gave Chinois his scars. Perched on a Moroccan mountain lit only by the full moon and orange glow from a tiny corner of Europe below, he pulls up a trouser leg to show the holes pockmarking his knee. The metal pellets he managed to dig out are kept in a grubby handkerchief in his pocket. The others remain buried in the young Cameroonian’s flesh, hobbling his walk. http://news.yahoo.com/syria-implodes-europe-braces-spiraling-refugee-crisis-070033505.html Time.com via Yahoo! News 2013-09-05 07:00:33 yboss 15039 blintz 140455 15039 Utah forecast: Warm, occasionally steamy When it comes to steamy, late-summer weather, rappin’ rabbi MC Moisha might have the 411 for Utah about “sweating like a mule [and] frying like a blintz.” OK, the Beehive State isn’t Miami Beach. But as this week ends you still you might crying out, “Oy, it’s so humid!” By mid-day Thursday, temperatures in Salt Lake City had tied the record high of 96 degrees set in 1967. High temperatures ... http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56829034-78/degrees-utah-forecast-thursday.html.csp The Salt Lake Tribune 2013-09-05 20:35:24 yboss 74686 labile 140456 74686 Signature Therapeutics, Inc., Presents Four Scientific Posters Today at PAINWeek 2013 Meeting PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Signature Therapeutics, Inc., today presented four scientific posters at the PAINWeek 2013 national conference in Las Vegas.  The posters illustrate the company's (i) trypsin-labile, immediate- and extended-release opioid prodrugs that... http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/signature-therapeutics-inc-presents-four-scientific-posters-today-at-painweek-2013-meeting-222518571.html PR Newswire 2013-09-05 14:15:57 yboss 15410 blue-winged teal 140457 15410 Bird of the Week: The Teal This week we'll be talking about teal. We have three kinds in Arkansas, the Blue-winged Teal and the Green-winged Teal, and the exceptionally rare (in Arkansas) Cinnamon Teal. http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=278551 KTHV Little Rock 2013-09-05 16:55:43 yboss 15208 bloody shame 140458 15208 'True Blood' gets an end date, and more news to note Today's news you might've missed: Noooooooooooooooo! HBO has announced that True Blood" will conclude with its seventh season next year. We will go ahead and say it: It's a bloody shame. [USA Today] We hope Simon Cowell was joking when he said he's timed the birth of his baby to coincide with the premiere of […]
    Sept. 3, 2013 - CNN

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