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...planet seems to boast a Thai-style treatment pavilion or Ayurvedic retreat) Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul should come as an intriguing discovery. Or perhaps that should be "rediscovery," since travelers on the Silk Road knew of the lake's therapeutic value for centuries. Soviet apparatchiks were also fond of it, holidaying in one of the 40 workers' sanatoria built by the communist state around the lake's 600 km of shoreline. Today, many of these facilities?now privately run?are luring holidaymakers from further afield with cheap accommodation and treatment packages...
...practice of medicine, doctors are fond of saying, is more art than science. Yet it's the guiding hand of science that directs them to reconsider treatments and make new educated guesses when a patient's symptoms don't go by the book. That's the force that will continue to reshape the way doctors manage heart disease, cancer and obesity in the coming years...
...planet seems to boast a Thai-style treatment pavilion or Ayurvedic retreat), Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul should come as an intriguing discovery. Or perhaps that should be "rediscovery," since travelers on the Silk Road knew of the lake's therapeutic value for centuries. Soviet apparatchiks were also fond of it, holidaying in one of the 40 workers' sanatoria built by the communist state around the lake's 600 km of shoreline. Today, many of these facilities - now privately run - are luring holidaymakers from further afield with cheap accommodation and treatment packages. West Europeans have been the first to catch...
Brokeback Mountain may be an Oscar frontrunner, but who would have thought country-western singer Willie Nelson would also be celebrating gay rope slingers? His song Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other) (sample lyric: "Inside every cowboy there's a lady that'd love to slip out") has been climbing the iTunes charts. TIME's Clayton Neuman asked him about...
...Twenty years ago I did Saturday Night Live in New York, and the bass player Tony gave me a cassette tape from a guy named Ned Sublette, and it was a song called Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other). And I thought it was the funniest goddamn song I'd ever heard. I had it on the bus for 20 years, and people would come in and I'd play it. When Brokeback come out, it just seemed like a good time to kick it out of the closet...