Word: elixir
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...week (excluding bamboo bungalow rooms that range from $6 to $45 a night), the Spa at Samui's eastern Lamai beach offers nothing less than the elixir of youth. With promises of "a longer and happier life," derivative traders, TV producers, flight attendants and other visitors swallow herbal nutrition tablets, quaff detoxifiers and regularly flush their insides. The talk over laxative tea runs from the latest stock fluctuations to?I'm not joking?the day's excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites...
...While globalization is inexorable--we can't stop the world, we can't get off--it's not an elixir for the world's problems" he said. "Our challenge is to harness the unique qualifications of globalization...