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...object of Foster's uncertainty is a brown, peanut-size bean called the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah). Nearly a decade ago, researchers found that oil extracted from the beanlike seeds of the jojoba bush, which grows wild in the desert of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico, could substitute for dwindling supplies of sperm whale...
...working round the clock. In the week following the pro-and anti-Banisadr riots, more than 50 men, women and children were executed. Some of the victims, like the writer and publisher Ali Asghar Amirani, were accused of "strengthening the Shah's regime." Others were members of the Bahá'í faith, whose Iranian adherents, numbering between 300,000 and 500,000, are regarded as heretics by Muslims...
Worst off is the biggest religious minority in the country, some 500,000 members of the Bahá'i faith, many of whom held important posts under the Shah. Khomeini's revolutionaries seized all official Bahá'i properties, and last fall a construction crew systematically tore down the House of the Bab in Shiraz, the holiest Bahá'i shrine...
...Bahá'is are hated as heretics because they believe that The Promised One-expected by Shi'ite Muslims-has already come in the person of Baha'u'llah, who founded the Bahá'i faith in 19th century Persia. But why the attacks on Anglicans? The church has existed in Iran for 150 years, but the 1,000 native Anglicans are associated with onetime British colonialism and suspected of serving as spies. There is a second reason: "Most of our members are Muslim converts," Margaret Dehqani-Tafti told a British reporter. "They are trying...
...show wearied into its third hour. And some of the choreography--the term may be too lofty--suggests John Travolta more than a Japanese noble. But the leads are all good. Donald Hovey's Nanki-Poo is bereft and expressive. Paul O'Neill's Pooh-Bah is engaging and suitably gorged, if a little stock. Dennis Crowley, as the Lord High Executioner is the spitting image of Alfred E. Neumann, and reacts to this madness just as the old man would, reeling off his "list" with pizazz. And Willis Emmons as Pish-Tush illuminates the show: of all the leads...