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A public experiment that was better in theory than in practice: "In the end, the restrooms, installed in early 2004, had become so filthy, so overrun with drug abusers and prostitutes, that although use was free of charge, even some of the city’s most destitute people refused to step inside them."

Quoted: After spending $5 million, Seattle officials decided to close the city’s five automated public toilets, which had become filthy and costly.

Further evidence of Bruce Springsteen's awesomeness. Go Jerz!

Quoted: Did Bruce Springsteen help bring down the Berlin Wall? Historians look back and say the singer's 1988 concert may have helped things along.

I think this article does a good job of pointing out that the benefits of yoga still far outweigh the risks, and that it's a very individual activity that requires listening to your own body rather than trying to "compete" with other students.

Quoted: Sloppy teaching and growing numbers of overly competitive students are giving yoga lovers serious and scary injuries: slipped disks, torn tendons, even strokes.

Doh!

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Um, this story is insane. Now that I know the koala was unscathed, it must have been quite a site to see a Koala's rear sticking out of the grille of a car...

Quoted: A koala that cheated death after being hit by a car at about 60 mph and dragged about 7 miles, his head jammed through the vehicle grille, is dubbed Australia's luckiest marsupial. Despite the chlamydial infection.

A really intersting article about how the stock photography inudstry works... My friend Pammy is actually a creative researcher for Getty Images! Fascinating stuff...

Quoted: To learn more, I got in touch with the creative research department at Getty Images—a major player in the "visual content distribution" field. (Slate is one of Getty's many clients.) The job of the creative research team is to have photos and video waiting when demand for specific visual content crops up.

Former Champ Car title-winner Paul Tracy - out of work since the series’ IndyCar merger earlier this year - will be back at Edmonton, he has confirmed - only not with Vision Racing, as had been surmised… ...
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Interesting article on how magazines are thriving in India, while they seem to be tanking here...

Quoted: An explosion of Western magazines has hit newsstands in India in the past year, pitching a familiar mix of gossip, relationship advice and expensive goodies.