Word: blues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hope," in official usage, is single but has a girlfriend. He is courteous, somewhat shy in public, but fluent in English and a lunchtime regular at Damascus' posh Club d'Orient. Though he was recently promoted to colonel in the Syrian military, the svelte heir apparent favors powder blue suits over camouflage fatigues. Bashar has taken charge of policy in Lebanon and spearheaded an anticorruption drive, but he is best known on the street as chairman of the Syrian Informatique Society, which is striving to wire isolated Syria to the Internet. He dispenses with the nationalistic swagger of his father...
Indeed, day spas have evolved from an indulgence to an expected perk. Some health-insurance providers, like Blue Cross of California now cover at least some spa treatments if prescribed by a physician. Better hotels simply have to have one, and companies like Hewlett-Packard are hiring on-site massage therapists for employees. Big Business has had its head turned in other ways too. The French giant LVMH, owner of Dior and Givenchy, last spring bought New York City's ultrahip Bliss spa for an estimated $30 million. Cosmetic companies like Estee Lauder are competing as well, with growing chains...
...with two 10-dog teams, breaking camp in the morning and setting it up at the end of day, struggling through blizzards, trying to find a way across the open water." He was thrilled by the Arctic, "one of the most unusual places in the world--the beautiful blue colors of the ice, the sparkle of the sun." Travelers of any age are welcome but must be in very good physical shape and willing to spend $25,000, the cost of the trip. Northwest Passage also offers less expensive ways to realize a polar dream, including...
...Calif., that seems more interested in protecting the environment than its profits, is about to teach me fly-fishing. Ahead of us, the quicksilver water burbles and shushes. Across the river, the cold mountains, patched with snowfields and dark bruises, poke into a hot, dry sky more white than blue...
...recycle until we're blue in the face, but until we're ready to make a lifestyle change, we're not going to do anything," she said...