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...Mention San Antonio, and most people remember the Alamo. But there's so much more: colleges, museums, challenging golf courses, Market Square with its arts and crafts stores, and the charming River Walk, lined with restaurants and parks. San Antonio nicely combines big-city amenities with a small-town resort feel...
...fanciest purveyors try to top one another with combinations of techniques, spiced with beauty treatments. Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa in Asheville, N.C., offers "Fire, Rock, Water and Light," in which the client's body is patted down with cool water, exfoliated with a blend of sugar and aromatic oil, painted with buttermilk and honey and then wrapped, whereafter cool rocks are stroked on the face. Once demummified, the client is given a "waterfall massage"--a spraying by multiple showerheads. In September the North Carolina Association of Realtors will send 1,000 participants to a conference at Grove Park...
...resort area of Hakone is blessed with a location at the base of Mount Fuji. A speedy train takes you from Tokyo to the town of Hakone Yumoto, where you transfer to a tram that zigs and zags into the mountains. Since its founding in 1878, the Fujiya Hotel fujiyahotel.co.jp in the hamlet of Miyanoshita has attracted foreign visitors, among them General Douglas MacArthur and John Lennon. Sepia-tinted Western charm--afternoon tea, French cuisine, decor like your Great Aunt Minnie's--infuses the famed institution. Across the street, the Naraya Inn (81-460-2-2411) offers more...
...Overseas, people still think of China as a monolithic state, ruled by a larger-than-life autocrat whose diktats reverberate in the nation's farthest reaches. But even as top party bosses gathered in the seaside resort of Beidaihe earlier this month to decide when Hu would replace President Jiang Zemin, ordinary Chinese were finding the selection of the country's next supreme leader largely irrelevant. After more than two decades of economic reform, China's centralized system has given way to clusters of fiefdoms operating outside Beijing's shrinking sphere of influence. Absolute power, once exemplified by the personality...
...CHARGED. IVAN LEXA, 41, former Slovak secret police chief, with armed robbery, fraud, kidnapping and corruption; in Bratislava. Lexa, who fled Slovakia in 2000, was detained at a South African beach resort near the port city of Durban as an illegal alien. He was deported to Bratislava where he was arrested...