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...When There's a Spa? If you prefer a mellower visit, Vail Mountain Lodge & Spa is offering a Wellness Week special June 21 to 26. The five-night program, which, as its name suggests, is designed to renew your sense of well-being, includes daily hikes, yoga, meditation, nutritional tips and three complimentary spa treatments, as well as personal consultations with the spa director. Rates start at $1,500 per person including all meals. 352 East Meadow Drive, Vail...
...workers. And there's little evidence it will be any easier to include one this time around. "It will be a job killer, because employers who cannot afford it will reduce payroll and not hire new workers," warns Bruce Josten of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. What business would prefer to see - and what Obama rejected during his presidential campaign - is an individual mandate requiring everyone who doesn't get health coverage at work to go out and buy it, just as car owners have to carry automobile insurance. But that means the Federal Government would have to subsidize people...
...University intends to follow in Allston, according to Chief Financial Officer Dan Shore. But concerned that Harvard was lagging behind its peers in scientific prowess, Summers-era administrators made expedience their goal—planning to fast-track construction through debt financing, without the donor support University planners usually prefer.“If we can’t move ahead in a timely fashion, I think we will lose many of our leading scientists to other areas,” Hyman said in 2007 to the board of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, seeking the city’s approval...
...Most Americans prefer balance in Washington. Like our Founders, they understand that too much concentration of power is a dangerous and frequently corrupting thing. It’s easy for us Republicans to recognize this when we’re in the political wilderness. Here’s hoping that we remember it next time we’re in power. And here’s hoping that in the meantime, sober-thinking Democrats learn the lesson of history and act humbly with the powers they’ve been given...
...these elections are largely an outlet for European voters to express their frustration with the status quo. The eccentrics and extremists may offer implausible E.U. policies, but most European governments prefer voters to vent their anger at the European elections rather than at the national polls. The danger is that this mood will shape the Parliament just when a new generation of politicians is needed to pull Europe out of its apathetic slump...