One area brought broad, positive agreement – the large and spotless air-conditioned canteen serving food from around the world, where this reporter enjoyed a perfectly pleasant bowl of pasta with cheese sauce.
Budget: Open since May, the Hotel Amazon, 19 Mitropoleos Street, (30-210) 323 4002, fax (30-210) 322 6672, www.amazonhotel.gr, has 40 simple but spotless air-conditioned rooms and glossy white bathrooms with showers.
Ask most people for their image of a typical scientist and chances are that they will conjure up visions of a white-coated figure tending high-tech instruments in a spotless air-conditioned laboratory or covering a well-worn blackboard with elaborate mathematical formulae in an ivy-covered building on some ancient campus.
While factories are spotless, the air inside nearby teahouses is hazy with the smoke and stench of cigarettes.
"The factory has to be spotless and air-conditioned, because you can't have people perspiring all over white garments," Youtie explains.
Ms. Cheng can still be found walking around campus or sitting in her spotless apartment, the air of a martyr about her.
But more significantly it was Woods's first WGC title since the 2009 scandal that cost him his spotless reputation and air of invincibility.
Outside the Indian city of Pune (often spelled Poona), Cipla has a brand-new factory where employees in spotless scrub suits cross pressurized air locks to tend expensive drug-making machinery.
She enters the simple yet spotless factory floor through an air shower chamber.
Interiors are simple but spotless and comfy with two double beds, kitchenettes, air conditioning, a screened porch and reliable Wi-Fi.
It's like stepping into my gran's house: the familiar smell of mothballs hangs in the air and the whole place is spotless.
