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Toilet improvements: flush with success Japan’s toilet wars started in February, when Matsushita engineers here unveiled a toilet seat equipped with electrodes that send a mild electric charge through the user’s buttocks, yielding a digital measurement of body-fat ratio. <Whoa,…

Sen. Byrd shows talons Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., a fierce opponent of the President Bush’s Iraq war resolution, indicated he would use delaying tactics in an effort to block the measure. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said that…

Is the American empire already over? “The United States has been fading as a global power since the 1970s, and the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks has merely accelerated this decline.” So says Immanuel Wallerstein, the Yale University political…

Over ninety UN resolutions are currently being violated. Israel is the worst offender, followed by Turkey and Morocco and, oh yeah, Iraq.