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Flushed With Pride
How the bathroom became America's latest status symbol.

By Witold RybczynskiPosted Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007, at 6:35 AM ET

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic. His latest book is My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life.
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