Word: mud
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...those spa-goers who are tired of Japanese sand baths and who contemplate Moroccan mud body wraps or Javanese exfoliating scrubs with a jaded sigh, there is now the Himalayan Tsangpo Ritual. The latest curiosity to emerge from the world apothecarium is based on sowa rigpa, or Tibetan traditional medicine, and is available at the Chi spas in the Edsa Shangri-La, Manila, and the Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok. It will also be introduced to spas at the chain's upcoming properties in the Maldives, New York City, Paris, and Boracay in the Philippines...
...crystals gathered by nomads from the ancient dry beds of the Tethys Sea, located on the Tibetan Plateau at 15,000 feet (4,500 m). The salt is mixed with high-altitude herbs like spikenard that apparently calm the senses. After the scrub comes a slathering of Himalayan mountain mud containing fulvic acids. Known as silagit, it has been used for centuries as an anti-inflammatory agent and to improve circulation. The treatment is completed with a bath and either a head-and-shoulder massage (in Manila) or a full-body massage (in Bangkok). Massages are done to the sound...
...fire or flood, it's the mud.' CHRISTINA LILLENTHAL, California's interagency fire spokeswoman, on the violent thunderstorms that have triggered mud slides in the disaster-ravaged state...
...three rival KFCs. Jamshed's recipe for success includes more than just a secret combination of herbs and spices. Young men are drawn like flies to the music videos blasting out of his store's open doors; the slack-jawed patrons watching Shakira, onscreen, writhing while covered alternately in mud, men, and nothing are sampling a bite-size package of Western decadence...
...eastern Afghanistan, the attackers, believed to be Taliban, let fly their rounds and rocket-propelled grenades in four directions at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Command Outpost, surprising coalition soldiers and their Afghan National Army counterparts stationed there. U.S. and Afghan government forces returned fire, but the mud brick walls of the village houses absorbed the impact of incoming bullets, and the Taliban kept the barrage coming, breaching the outer security ring and fighting hard until noon. The Americans called in mortars and close air support; Apache attack helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft responded with fire from...