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...order to draw young people to the site, TTrefund.com offers a $10 discount on the Rush Card's $19.95 activation fee, plus deals on personal computers, digital cameras and wireless phones from Best Buy. Spring breakers can even save $200 on TTrefund-financed trips to Canc�n, Mexico, or Daytona Beach, Fla. (This tax season, 9 out of 10 young taxpayers will be eligible for a refund--$900 on average.) So, will tax filing soon become hip? "No," says Simmons. "I'm going to make getting your money back cool. If people don't take advantage of this, someone else...
...SAMUI, THAILAND The trailblazer among the country's detox spas, Spa Samui, tel: (66-77) 230 976, was set up on the island's Lamai beach in 1992 by Californian Guy Hopkins, who began looking into wellness treatments after his mother succumbed to cancer. A supervised seven-day Clean-Me-Out fast is offered...
...SOMATHEERAM BEACH RESORT, INDIA Choose from 28 wellness programs at this highly regarded Keralan spa, tel: (91) 471 226 8101. A five-time winner of the state's "best Ayurvedic center" award, it also has dozens of therapists on site, and offers music, art and dance programs should you need a break from all the treatments...
...work? What will be rebuilt? Who will own the new construction? Sticky questions. Let's hope that in a couple of years journalists will compare what they find in those areas with how things were before the tsunami. How many poor fishermen will get boats, and how many beach resorts will be rebuilt? Who will benefit? Real assistance consists of organizing at the grassroots level with the goal of putting aid money where it is needed and making sure it doesn't end up in the pockets of foreign contractors and owners of resorts. Naturally, few people have the skills...
...government concentrator in Lowell House, still believes in a place called Fiscal Responsibility. Meantime, he loves long walks on the beach. “Politically Corrected” continues to investigate the political and policy choices of public officials, but now wonders: Is this the worst we can do? He has stopped asking other questions. His column will appear on alternate Thursdays...