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Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars are expected to align March 28.. A spectacular celestial sight is on the horizon and you won't want to miss it. Planets Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars are expected to align in the night sky on March 28. Planetary alignments occur when the orbit of several planets coincide with each other and they appear to be lined up in the sky. Alignments typically only include two or three planets and are fairly brief, making a 5-planet alignment fairly noteworthy. This rare planetary parade will first become visible in the western sky just after...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) [Warning: This is the first PG-13 version of Today’s Campaign Update. Today’s Campaign Update will return to its traditional PG format tomorrow.] - Me and Rush, tight as ticks. – I caught Rush Limbaugh’s opening segment the last two days, and I’m beginning to think he’s reading my Daily Campaign Updates during his daily show prep. If you listen to the first 8 minutes of his show the last two days and compare that to what I wrote, there’s a lot of not just the same points, but a lot of exact...

Turns out it was a crappy idea. The principal of a Hell’s Kitchen HS that used to be among the most violent in the city had students using wooden toilet plungers as hall passes this school year. The half-baked scheme by the second-year principal at the HS of Graphic Communication Arts that placed 2-foot-long plungers in every classroom last month immediately plunged the school into chaos, a source said. “The kids were using the plungers to whack each other, to pop ceiling tiles in the bathroom,” the source said. “They were sticking it in the toilet and then flinging them...

A big splash occurred on Monday morning at the House Press Gallery in the U.S. Capitol. No, this wasn’t one of those unexpected guest appearances for celebrities to talk to reporters about some favorite cause. This splash came from an exploding urinal. More specifically, something suddenly broke in the piping of the third-floor urinal, and water began spewing from beneath the men’s room door. As the water flowed, it first surrounded the Associated Press’s working area, then spread toward both ends of the gallery, which was occupied by fewer than usual reporters and staffers, because the House is out of...

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A steel and glass toilet-shaped house is under construction in Suwon, 40 kilometers south of Seoul, on 10 October. The house owned by South Korean sanitation activist Sim Jae-Duck will be open on November 11 to mark the launch of the World Toilet Association.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je) South Korea's leading sanitaton activist Sim Jae-Duck poses at his office in Seoul, on 10 October. Sim, head of the Korea Toilet Association, is building a toilet-shaped house to mark the launch of the World Toilet Association in November.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je) This handout computer graphic image by designer Koki-woong shows a toilet-shaped house in Suwon, 40...

The Chinese capital, notorious for its smelly lavatories, will show off its ambitious plan to improve them during the fourth annual World Toilet Summit later this month, the Beijing government said Friday. "Toilets represent a country's level of development, it reflects a place's level of material and spiritual civilisation," Yu Debin, deputy director of the Beijing Tourism Bureau, told a press conference. Beijing has already invested more than 200 million yuan (24 million dollars) since 2001 on upgrading and building more than 700 new public toilets to prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, he said. "The toilet problem at many...