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Blood simple! The FDA last week okayed Lasette, a portable laser device that enables diabetics to draw blood easily, with little or no pain. Many patients test their blood-glucose levels every day--in some cases 10 times--by pricking their skin with a razor-sharp steel lancet. By contrast Lasette sends a beam of light that vaporizes skin and creates a tiny hole so quickly--30 millionths of a second--it's barely felt. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...Texas Death Row Fugitive Guy was so empathetic because he was an underdog: darkening his uniform with a pen, scaling two 10-ft., razor-studded fences, ducking a barrage of bullets, scampering through a marshy forest and evading more than 500 officers. Martin Gurule was a maverick with nothing left to lose up against a giant bureaucracy and some pretty cocky-sounding Texas prison officers, who were fooled by pillows he bunched together to make it look like him sleeping. Gurule was fighting the Man. He was messing with Texas. Are you getting this, Mr. Bruckheimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooting for the Death-Row Fugitive Guy | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...continue to represent them, he betrayed them just when they needed him most. Then to top if off, he blames his woes on the "hateful cannibals" in his own party! This is like shaving yourself in a mirror, then afterward complaining that you were attacked by someone with a razor. ROBERT B. BUTLER Mahopac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...SAFETY RAZOR King Gillette created the first safety in 1903. He saved millions of necks, and grateful shavers made him fantastically rich. He supplied 3 million razors and 36 million blades to the American troops in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Electric Razor 1931, by Col. Jacob Schick, who sold 3,000 the first year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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