Word: mint
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...traditional Hammam (Turkish bath). This beautiful, warm sanctuary, with its intricate mosaics and splendid dome, is a place where the outside world melts away. I chose the Ritual treatment, where I disrobed and was bathed by my therapist before entering the steam room. My body was then plastered in mint-scented clay and my face smeared with honey that smelled so sweet I was tempted to taste it. Know going in that the word massage is derived from the Arabic mass (gentle touch). After a second bathing, as aromatic oil is rubbed into your skin, it's clear that...
...while the caravan beds down, their horses shifting in the darkness. After the show you won't want to leave, and may sit down and order a feast of your own in the velvet-curtained dining pavilion. Or you may linger around the bonfire outside the theater sipping a mint tea or spiced wine, trying to prolong your dreamlike state until, grudgingly, you catch the last metro back to reality. www.theatre-zingaro.com
...while the caravan beds down, their horses shifting in the darkness. After the show you won't want to leave, and may sit down and order a feast of your own in the velvet-curtained dining pavilion. Or you may linger around the bonfire outside the theater sipping a mint tea or spiced wine, trying to prolong your dreamlike state until, grudgingly, you catch the last metro back to reality. www.theatre-zingaro.com
...your mom: a Harvard Mug from the Harvard Shop (for the fourth year in a row), $9.00. 7) For your alumnus father: a strand of flashing Christmas lights from CVS to adorn that Harvard diploma of his, $9.99. 8) For the fashionista: a $15 gift certificate to Mint Julep, which will buy her...nothing. 9) For the wannabe musician: an hour lesson with the man who plays the erhu in the Square, $13.75. 10) For the image-conscious Hist and Lit concentrator: a Starbucks paper cup to compliment her Uggs and Burberry scarf, $0.20. 11) For your vegan blockmate...
...owned by physicians, many in partnership with hospitals seeking to minimize losses. The number of imaging centers has climbed to 6,037, up from 4,159 in 2001, according to the data firm Verispan. The scanning machines are costly to maintain, but once those costs are covered, the machines mint money. "There's an intense market-share competition taking place between hospital outpatient departments and imaging centers," says John Donahue, chairman of National Imaging Associates, which manages radiology for insurers in 36 states. "This battle is under way in Florida, Texas and virtually every state in which we operate...