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...savings. Stock-index funds? Zero-coupon bonds? Target maturity mutual funds? Custodial accounts? Prepaid tuition plans? Education IRAs? Each has advantages for folks staring at potential six-figure tuition bills down the road. It all amounts to a terrifying multiple-choice test that leads even straight-A parents to resort to guesswork or to cutting class altogether...
When they began to open at the beginning of the past century, America's grande-dame resort hotels, with their hundreds of stately rooms, huge, attentive staffs and sumptuous dining, catered to wealthy families who often traveled with servants, arrived in their own train cars and stayed for months at a time. Times changed. The grande dames began to fall out of favor--and some into disrepair...
...grande dames, the Breakers is regarded as royalty. Its facade is patterned after Rome's Villa Medici. The interior is a riot of tapestries, Renaissance paintings, marble and lush gardens. Until recently, guests who returned year after year to enjoy the grandeur were mostly older. "This was not a resort that was historically family friendly," admits Paul Leone, president of Flagler System, the private, family-run company that has always owned the Breakers. "Back in the '20s, for example, the scene was very formal--the men in black tie." In the mid-'90s, management reached out to younger guests, visitors...
...savings. Stock-index funds? Zero-coupon bonds? Target maturity mutual funds? Custodial accounts? Prepaid tuition plans? Education IRAs? Each has advantages for folks staring at potential six-figure tuition bills down the road. It all amounts to a terrifying multiple-choice test that leads even straight-A parents to resort to guesswork or to cutting class altogether...
...excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites. In addition to a seven-day fast, the Spa offers three-day courses and, for the busy spirit, the single-day "liver flush fast." The resort is also a magnet for passing alternative health therapists touting everything from hypnotherapy to acupuncture. Ask around: while many are skilled professionals, some are clearly charlatans. Check out spasamui.com or call (66-77) 230-855 for reservations. For more upmarket bungalows, try the Tamarind Retreat, 500 m away on a coconut...