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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sooner had the helicopters whisked away Ferdinand Marcos, his family and entourage than the looters and the curious began to arrive. They found a half-eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: 'Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream' ... A few came to plunder and destroy. ONE MAN THREW A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DEPARTED FIRST LADY INTO AN ORNAMENTAL FISH POOL. But mostly, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...Lady Pat wants to convince me that Sudoku is the caviar of puzzles, an ideal mind expander, opening a world of numerical possibilities with a minimum of means. All right. I acknowledge the game's elegance. And, heaven knows, I'm a number freak. Attach a few of them to a pitcher's or batter's record, and I'm off in Rotisserie or SABRmetrics dreamland. Ahh, slugging percentage! Oooh, WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched)! Those numbers have meaning, personality, clout. They lend biographical nuance and historical comparison to the game of baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Sudoku? | 6/17/2006 | See Source »

...that so many of them deal in unalluring stuff like mud facials and seaweed wraps. How about something more in keeping with the luxurious surroundings and sky-high prices? Realizing that not everyone wants to be smeared in algae or scoured with salt, some spas are offering therapies featuring caviar, chocolate, even champagne. If you want to put the aah back in spa, skip the kelp masks and go straight for these top-dollar treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expensive Tastes | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...BEVERLY HILLS: You're not about to squander your precious appointment at the Beverly Hills Hotel Spa, tel: (1-310) 887 2505, on a quick massage. Instead, book the caviar firming facial?a favorite of the spa's celebrity-studded clientele, and a snip at $270. Caviar extract is used instead of actual roe: save the latter for the evening's hors d'oeuvres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expensive Tastes | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...unalluring stuff like mud facials and seaweed wraps. How about something more in keeping with the luxurious surroundings and sky-high prices? Realizing that not everyone wants to be smeared in algae or scoured with salt, some spas are offering therapies featuring[an error occurred while processing this directive] caviar, chocolate, even champagne. If you want to put the aah back in spa, skip the kelp masks and go straight for these top-dollar treatments. BEVERLY HILLS: You're not about to squander your precious appointment at the Beverly Hills Hotel Spa, tel: (1-310) 887 2505, on a quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expensive Tastes | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

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