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...Stonecipher thought it was hokey when he heard that his biotechnology convention was booked at the Wild Horse Pass Resort and Spa outside Phoenix, Ariz. The idea of a hotel designed around a western theme "sounded like a dude ranch," he says. Instead, the marketing manager from San Jose, Calif., found rooms decorated with authentic baskets and pottery from the Pima and Maricopa tribes; an upscale spa that offered such Indian-inspired treatments as tashogith, a clarification bath using juniper and cypress; and the Kai restaurant, which features dishes like lobster with fry bread, a Native American staple. Says Stonecipher...
...chains, still trying to recover from the travel slowdown that followed Sept. 11, are experimenting with leitmotivs too. A newly opened Marriott venture in Walnut Creek, Calif., is a fitness freak's paradise. Renaissance ClubSport Hotel and Fitness Resort's 6.5-acre campus offers basketball, volleyball, racquetball and squash courts, outdoor boccie courts, three swimming pools and kickboxing classes. All the guest rooms are outfitted with sets of 2-lb. dumbbells, and power shakes are on the menu. And the Wild Horse itself is the product of a collaboration between the Sheraton and the Maricopas and Pimas. The $125 million...
...send the victims to heaven, but what about those left behind? Those who lost a father, a business, how do they eat, how do they send their children to school?" If the tourists don't come back, or another bomb hits the region, Wiranatha knows that as a last resort, he can always return to his family farm to grow rice. Suameria, the bartender, has no such escape plan. After spending three years in Kuta, he shudders at the thought of returning to his home village on Bali's north coast. "The tourists will just have to come back...
MATRIMONIAL BLISS The Balinese know how to treat their brides. Though marriage wasn't on my mind when I entered the Ubud Sari Health Resort, call (62-361) 974 398, I opted for the Mandi Lulur, a beauty treatment usually reserved for women on their wedding day. My masseuse led me to a garden bungalow, where she massaged my knotted muscles with aromatic oils, then polished my skin with lulur, a traditional exfoliating paste made from pounded rice, turmeric and local spices. After a soak in a rose petal milk bath, I finished in the cedar-scented steam room. Relaxed...
...opens his door, the waiter whips out a pistol and calmly proceeds to blast the head off a papier-machE dummy. In other scenes, masked fighters abseiling down the walls of the "hotel" with grenades leave no doubt what this is: a training manual for an assault on a resort complex. The video, one of a batch of al-Qaeda tapes found outside Kabul this month, is a chilling reminder of the range of targets al-Qaeda and its proxies like Jemaah Islamiah are preparing to attack. With each new arrest?last week Indonesian investigators nabbed Bali bomber Imam Samudra...