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...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 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...
...Perhaps my strength is that I don't accept those limits." Airness's founder insists there'd be a lot more chances to go around if rigid French attitudes could limber up in U.S. style. "In America, if a 15-year-old kid from the Bronx has a million-dollar idea, there's no debate about what's possible: the kid is ceo, and people get to work behind him," laughs Koné. "France has lots of young people with great ideas. Why aren't they getting through?" Still, in at least one area, Koné is a true French...
Martin Terrazas Jr. and his younger brother Miguel used to work the counters together at Ben's Tacos, the combination eatery and convenience store owned by their family on Delta Street in El Paso, Texas. For $3, you get half a dozen tacos; a dollar gets you a comb or a pair of die. It was Terrazas tradition to stand behind the counter at Ben's: Martin and Miguel's father, uncles and cousins worked there, wearing the store uniform, a full-length orange apron. There was another family tradition: the military. Grandfather Jorge is an Army vet. Uncle Luis...
...enormous increases in its endowment and budget during his tenure as president.In the fall of 1955, the Ford Foundation donated over $4 million, mostly to accommodate rising faculty salaries.Harvard received more than $3.75 million during the first quarter of fiscal year 1955-56 and had received half a million dollars more during the same portion of the previous year. Fundraising success continued the following year, with the University taking in over $3 million in the first quarter of 1956. More than $300,000 of that money was earmarked for financial aid.In the second quarter of fiscal year 1956, the University...
That would be the ideal outcome for Barbaro. But there are plenty of other, less-fussed-over racehorses that come to a sorrier end. Breeding and racing are multibillion-dollar businesses, and they're not likely to get smaller any time soon. The people who raise and run the horses do care about them deeply, as Barbaro's attentive owners show. The industry as a whole, however, may need to love its animals just a little bit more, if only to push them a little bit less. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] POWER ZONE...