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...taxes to the state, but can't collect state pensions because they're considered to be illegally practicing medicine. How can this muddle be sorted out? With lobbyists prescribing a multiplicity of approaches, European governments can be excused a little confusion. But alternative therapies are often the last resort for patients failed by conventional treatments or suffering chronic conditions. Vulnerable, sometimes in financial hardship because of their illnesses, they're looking for help, not controversy. Time, they say, for the alternative and conventional camps to stop giving each other the needle...
...first tentative teenage overtures to middle-class Meg (Francesca Savige); her shrewish mother Gwen (Barbara Lowing) in turn is being gently snubbed by the headmaster's aloof wife Coral (Georgina Symes). As the three families go their separate ways over Christmas?to camp, caravan park and Gold Coast resort, respectively?only to meet up on the same stretch of beach after a New Year storm, Gow miraculously captures the full weave of Australian baby-boomer society. Here the cultural reference points are Kim Novak, Chips Rafferty and Dame Pattie Menzies, and Roger Kemp's production design rings true right down...
...writes in her introduction to the new book, "and could surely never be the same place again." An understatement. The old Hav was bombed to rubble in the 1985 Intervention that led to the current religious regime. The new state, Morris writes, is an efficient, tourism-obsessed, architecturally innovative resort destination - a kind of sanitized Singapore or a deracinated Dubai. The snow raspberries are now genetically engineered and exported aggressively, the trumpeter has been replaced by an electronic carillon, and the old ethic and religious tensions are reasserting themselves. "In many ways," writes Morris, the city has become "a paradigm...
After her dad died, public relations consultant Stacey Udell, 39, of Dix Hills, N.Y., wanted to show her mom Ellie Meyrowitz, 64, a good time away from grandkids and in-laws. Since they both like nightlife and glamour, Udell arranged a stay at El Conquistador Resort & Golden Door Spa in Las Croabas, Puerto Rico. Every day, after lounging on the beach, they dolled themselves up for a night on the town, drank vodka on the rocks and lingered over lavish meals. One night, they went to an art- museum restaurant and found limos outside. Inside, local women in glittery dresses...
...with him again. At 70, her dad Jim Hajek was lamenting that his old fishing pals were gone or infirm and that his back pain kept him from making the rugged trips he used to enjoy. He leaped at Angela's offer to fish together at the Salmon Falls Resort in Ketchikan, Alaska. She picked a lodge that provided guided trips on comfortable boats, packed lunches and cleaned their catch each day. They caught lots of fish, saw pods of orca whales and watched a school of Dall's porpoises. Angela had worried that father and daughter, both stubborn, might...