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Character Counts!
In 1980, a critically acclaimed movie titled The Elephant Man hit the theaters. It told the story of John Merrick, a severely deformed person living in Victorian-era England. Due to Merrick’s disfigurement, he spent much of his childhood on display in circus sideshows. And in his adult life, he was both a medical curiosity and an object of ridicule. To nearly everyone, his notoriety was due to his horrible appearance. Then Merrick met a surgeon named Frederick Treves. Despite his interest in Merrick’s condition, Treves was also able to recognize the person beneath the misshapen features. The surgeon discovered that Merrick was a highly intelligent and creative…
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Whatever Happened to the Paper Towels?
I remember, years ago, when all public restrooms had the same towels. They were on a roll, in a dispenser, with a little handle on the right side that, when cranked, produced a never ending loop of blue cloth towel material. Eventually, paper rolls replaced cloth. I think this happened because most of us wondered how the dispenser knew where the dirty towels stopped, and the clean towels began. Next came folded paper towels in recessed dispensers and vertical rolls of paper towels that when dispensed produced a paper towel “rope”. After that came the electric hand dryer that was to replace paper forever and be environmentally friendly. Now we’ve…