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...underwater massage in a private pool filled with flowers, or stay dry and pick one of the 18 other options, like the Balinese or Indian oil rubs. For the piece de resistance, visitors soon will be able to steam and swathe themselves in mud in a room where fiber-optic cable replicates the night sky. A soft rain from the fake night dome washes them clean...
...there's blood in the stool or the sigmoidoscopy reveals a problem, a more thorough exam is required. (A positive stool test indicates cancer less than 10% of the time.) In a procedure called a colonoscopy, a gastroenterologist uses a light-tipped fiber-optic instrument to examine the entire length of the large intestine. Since you're sedated, the hardest part is often drinking the salty liquid needed to evacuate your bowels the night before...
...election trail and 12-day Asia trip reduce voice to whisper. Vocal cords examined with fiber-optic probe; given drug to keep stomach acid out of throat...
Even the most diligent parents are likely to learn something about feeding their kids. Paradoxically, as the authors explain, many families following the latest nutritional guidelines may actually be putting their children's health at risk. Why? Because the reduced-fat, high-fiber diets that make sense for most adults don't have enough of the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients essential for growing bodies. "With the current emphasis on eating less red meat and fewer eggs, it's virtually impossible for kids to eat a balanced diet," Roberts says. The two biggest gaps are iron and zinc. Kids also...
...John Galliano's models, left, sported hats adorned with dead foxes and pheasants--demonstrating how Dior customers can simultaneously snare a meal and a fashion statement. Alexander McQueen at Givenchy suggested that not only supermodels but also the human race may be extinct next century, exhibiting his clothes on fiber-glass mannequins that briefly popped up from the floorboards. And Paco Rabanne illustrated his prediction that the Mir space station will kill thousands when it crash-lands in Paris in August by showing a metallic satellite dress, center. For Rabanne, the end has already arrived. After 33 years, he presented...