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Three of the cleanest-shaven men in the world are beaming. For 27 years the third blade, like Darwin's missing link or Fermat's last theorem, had eluded them. The idea of three blades dancing on the head of a razor was so preposterous that Saturday Night Live used it as a commercial parody in 1975. To the engineers at Gillette, that joke was a cruel mockery, a searing reminder of their limitations...
...cloth, but when it comes to political infighting, Iran?s conservatives play dirty pool. This week Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, a key aide of the moderate President Mohammed Khatami, was arrested on corruption charges. ?The charges are widely regarded as bogus, because Karbaschi is one of the cleanest politicians in the country,? says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. ?This is the strongest challenge yet to Khatami by the conservatives who are resisting his moves to thaw relations with Washington.? Although Khatami and his government have condemned the arrest -- and arranged for Karbaschi to keep on running the capital...
Privately, many Arab officials and dissident Iraqis urge assassination on their American contacts as the cleanest way to return Iraq to some kind of normality. But Executive Order 12333, issued by Ronald Reagan, says that "no person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." The prohibition grew out of widespread disgust over disclosures of U.S. plots to kill Castro and a scheme to depose Chile's President Salvador Allende that helped lead to his death...
...study showed a death rate in the dirtiest city 26 percent higher than the death rate in the cleanest city...
...francophone says he is currently organizing an expedition over the south Pacific to study what he says is "probably the cleanest place in the world, a place where no one has been...