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...Case in point: at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, a nine-hectare mega-resort at the western end of Waikiki Beach, a 25-story tower opening in May will house a 3,900-sq-m spa and "wellness center." One of its main attractions: a state-of-the-art Electron Beam Tomography scanner, the first of its kind to be installed in a resort setting. This $2 million machine works with high-resolution ultrasound and other space-age diagnostic tools to detect early signs of heart disease and cancer. For around $8,000 per person, anyone whose stock portfolio hasn...
...culinary melting pot than the cozy, contemporary dining room at Chef Mavro, tel: (808) 944-4714. George Mavrothalassitis, a charming Frenchman of Greek ancestry, made his name in the islands as executive chef of La Mer at the venerable Halekulani on Waikiki Beach, and later at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui. In 1998, Mavrothalassitis launched his signature restaurant a few minutes away from Waikiki, serving a meticulous marriage of local seafood and produce with diverse continental and Asian influences, all presented in fine classical French style. Prix fixe menus range from $48 to $85 per person, though wine...
...believe that one of the reasons that Cambridge still has such a diversity in the public schools--and has not become like many other urban centers, a school of last resort--I believe that choice is an important part of that," Turkel says...
...example, the official position on the protests in China is that the students had steadfastly refused to compromise. Their refusals, the position goes, exacerbated the tensions, forcing the reluctant government to use force as a last resort. The records in the "Tiananmen Papers," however, show in fact that what happened was the exact opposite...
...thick marble columns and bulging stacks have inspired many a pair of Harvard lovebirds to episodes of vigorous coupling. Yet in the spirit of charity, we must remember that Yale students deprived of such "extracurriculars" are far more unused than we to healthy pleasures, and that they must occasionally resort to the sorry excuse that one is an "artist" producing "a porn film" in order to find partners for the realization of their repressed fantasies...