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...tasteful English country-house style rather than in anonymous airport decor. And if you've got the time, it's got a 27-hole golf course - the setting for James Bond's game against Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 film - and a new $20 million spa and racquet club. It's also rich in history. The present clubhouse was built between 1790 and 1813, but the 142-hectare estate is even older - previous occupants have included Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I, who was kept prisoner there by the Scots in 1647. It was Stoke Park that moved 17th...
...raced to reel in the prized 18-to-34 demographic, have spread the word almost evangelically. "What Curves has done is broken through the perception that you have to be fit, coordinated and thin to go to a gym," says Bill Howland, director of research for the International Health, Racquet and Sports Association, the industry's largest trade organization. "They've carved out a niche within the population that had never been served...
...equipment and children-only policy, is not yet the norm, Scotti is just one of a rapidly growing group of teens and preteens who regularly hit the health club to lift weights, run on treadmills, take spinning classes and relax in the hot tub. According to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), membership among teens and preteens has jumped 65% in the past five years. Kids ages 6 to 17 now make up 12% of all club memberships, and about a quarter of IHRSA's member clubs have some kind of family program...
Megumi Yokota was last seen pausing at a traffic light by her home in Niigata, a badminton racquet stuffed in a white bag and a black schoolbag clutched in her hand. Then she vanished without a trace. That was 25 years ago. Her mother Sakie thought she would never know where her 13-year-old daughter had gone, until she read a series of articles in a newspaper three years later suggesting that North Korean agents were snatching Japanese citizens off the streets and whisking them to their motherland. Sakie's suspicion turned into conviction when a North Korean defector...
...Korea says about the abductees. They want independent confirmation that the people on Kim's list are who the North Koreans claim they are. Umemoto's only proof that he was speaking to Megumi Yokota's daughter, for instance, was a dated photo of Megumi and an old badminton racquet. Yet the Yokotas have not given in to despair. If the girl in Pyongyang really is their granddaughter, says Megumi's father Shigeru, he and his wife are ready to go there to meet her. "We'd like to find out how Megumi got married and what her life...