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...prices range from $35 for a two-hour visit to $82 for a full day. An onsite restaurant featuring the cuisine of Michelin-starred chef Martin Blunos beautifully completes the facility. Reading its healthy menu in the afterglow of a rejuvenating sauna, it remains an utter mystery how the people of Bath were able to forsake their famous springs for so long...
...Life cover line on Spillane read: "13,000,000 Books of Sex and Slaughter." He didn't exactly invent the paperback market, but he certified their status as the main format for popular fiction. "Mickey Spillane's contribution is far beyond mystery or crime writing," crime-book editor Martin Greenberg says in the affectionate and impressive documentary Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane (available as part of the three-disc set Max Allan Collins' Black Box). "I think he's a phenomenon in regard to the whole explosion of the mass-market paperback, and was probably its first great star." Spillane...
...third of the country's electricity well into the future. A big factor is demand: global consumption of electricity is expected to double between 2002 and 2030. "World gas resources are not sufficient to meet the world's demand for energy. It can only be done with coal," insists Martin May, spokesman for Swedish power company Vattenfall. Not that coal ever exactly disappeared. During the cold months of last winter, both Germany and Britain relied heavily on coal to meet power requirements. And coal remains a key power source in many other countries, including Poland, Israel and Spain. But coal...
...Lobsters, for example, feature tennis great Martina Navratilova and former U.S. Open finalist Todd Martin, though neither took the court on Sunday. Kournikova was in town as a featured player for the Sacramento Capitals...
...show's director, George Abbott, was pleased, and gave Allyson a lead role in his next musical, Best Foot Forward. When MGM did the movie version, Allyson went west, and stayed there. So did Stanley Donen, who would soon graduate from chorus boy to choreographer and director, and Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, whom the studio signed to write the score for Meet Me in St. Louis, starring the MGM princess Judy Garland. The diva and the ingenue would become lifelong friends...