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...hasn't commented. Even the media are tainted. In July, public television network ARD sacked two of its top sports editors who, prosecutors say, had taken fees from organizers of minor sporting events in exchange for coverage. Despite these high-profile cases, corruption watchdogs say Germany is still pretty clean. "Corruption hasn't become more frequent," says Ludolf von Wartenberg, director general of the Federation of German Industries in Berlin. "It's just that the cases have become more spectacular." Indeed, studies indicate that Germany's corporate sector, together with its public authorities and political institutions, is actually becoming less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

...Jones, Cooter on TV's Dukes of Hazzard, says the JOHNNY KNOXVILLE remake "mocks the good clean values of our series." Like short shorts and shotguns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protesting Punch Lines | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

...place. Shuttles have been shedding tiles and foam for years, but luck and careful maintenance prevented tragedies. Then Columbia happened. Since then, NASA has narrowed the aperture of danger it is willing to tolerate. The current shuttle, by comparison to some of the previous missions, is remarkably clean despite the foam that fell off. In that respect, it shows that the work of the past two years has produced a lot of results. It's about as clean as a shuttle can be after liftoff, but having lost seven people to a foam-related, NASA has moved toward zero tolerance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Badly Damaged is Discovery? | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...atafu Beach on the northwestern tip of Tongatapu, the Kingdom of Tonga's main island, Sokoi Liava'a crouches on the shore and eyes the building swell with visible excitement. The forecasts that have been buzzing about the beach were right. After a week of flat or messy seas, clean 2-m waves are rolling in. The tall 25-year-old took up surfing eight months ago. He's unemployed now - a friend chips in that this is because Liava'a kept taking sick days to catch waves. Liava'a laughs this off, but without diverting his gaze from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rediscovering the Joy of Surf | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...video, too, it's great these days: you've got the world champion in your living room. It's just play and replay . . . and Kelly Slater is showing them his moves." And Ha'atafu provides good learning conditions. "We get some world-class waves here," says Burling. "They're clean and a good size, though we don't get the huge waves you'd associate with Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rediscovering the Joy of Surf | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

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