Bathroom Blues
School restrooms are often dirty, dank, and depressing. But a lone crusader is proving that they don't have to be.
Portales, N.M.
Tom Keating's at it again. He's talkin' trash. And toilets. And sinks and urinals.
He's leading a brisk tour of an American high school's typically dirty bathrooms, and no disgusting detail escapes his attention.
"Look at this," he says, pointing at a men's room stall with no door. "A place for an intimate moment, and no privacy." Ditto on the row of stained urinals with...
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