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...Minnesota is a consultant to the Marsh club in Minnetonka, Minn. Chicago's East Bank Club is affiliated with the University of Chicago Hospitals Physician Group and plans to set up a sports-medicine facility staffed by orthopedists from Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Last month at Boston's Le Pli Enterprises, cosmetic surgeons began offering laser treatments for broken capillaries...
Anderson has first-hand experience of this kind of attitude through her job at the front desk of the Le Pli Spa at Charles Square. "It's so funny how these people with all kinds of titles behind their name automatically think that I should give them extra-special treatment," Anderson says. "It's funny how they treat me until they find out I go to Harvard. To me, that's kind of bogus because I was the same person I was before they knew where I went. I'll be glad when I'm at a place where people...
...runs a popular one aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2. And there are a growing number of so-called urban spas for time-pressed, cash-short city dwellers. Georgette Klinger's two-month-old Total Care Program in New York City features half-day and full-day schedules. At Le Pli, located by the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., weekend guests stay at the hotel, get a fitness evaluation, nutrition advice, massages, facials and body wraps. Kathleen Keady, 30, a field sales engineer for a high-tech firm, plunked down $950 for one such spree and says it was worth...
...program has won the endorsement of doctors, physical therapists and the American Cancer Society. But its strongest supporters are its direct beneficiaries. The women, all between the ages of 32 and 64, meet for an hour and a half each week in Welch's airy studio to practice pliés and ronds de jambe, and to share their experiences...
...will ask someone for fun. Or Foreman may test a visitor by asking him to recite the Lord's Prayer. Ali may soon lose his claim to being No. 1 in fast footwork. Last winter, when Foreman was living in Los Angeles, he studied ballet. Though he demonstrates pliés only when photographers' backs are turned, Foreman says, "I took up ballet after seeing a dance show in Las Vegas. You know, I enjoyed it. I didn't think I'd like the sissy stuff, but I really had fun. When this fight is over...