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...face one more hot-stone massage? No desire for another body wrap? For anyone suffering from spa fatigue (and that could be many of us, given that every corner of the planet seems to boast a Thai-style treatment pavilion or Ayurvedic retreat) Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul should come as an intriguing discovery. Or perhaps that should be "rediscovery," since travelers on the Silk Road knew of the lake's therapeutic value for centuries. Soviet apparatchiks were also fond of it, holidaying in one of the 40 workers' sanatoria built by the communist state around the lake...
...face one more hot-stone massage? No desire for another body wrap? For anyone suffering from spa fatigue (and that could be many of us, given that every corner of the planet seems to boast a Thai-style treatment pavilion or Ayurvedic retreat), Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk-Kul should come as an intriguing discovery. Or perhaps that should be "rediscovery," since travelers on the Silk Road knew of the lake's therapeutic value for centuries. Soviet apparatchiks were also fond of it, holidaying in one of the 40 workers' sanatoria built by the communist state around the lake...
...clotted repository of ornate French-style furniture like rococo mirrors, mirrored vanities and tiara chandeliers. "Women are looking for more personal expression in the way they decorate than that offered by Pottery Barn," says owner Claudia Strasser. In her purview, four walls can become anything from a beach retreat to Versailles...
Whatever it is, something about that halftime buzzer and the retreat to the locker room flips a switch for the Harvard women’s basketball team. Yet another second half surge, this one spurred on by the Crimson bench, led Harvard to a 78-69 win in Ithaca and a season sweep of the Big Red on Friday. The Crimson reserves exploded for 28 second-half points as Harvard erased a nine-point halftime deficit and overcame Cornell’s torrid shooting from beyond the arc. “We’ve got to get ourselves motivated...
...member of the Undergraduate Council (UC) and one of the organizers of yesterday’s event. “For every one of them, there are also colleagues of theirs who are too easily distracted, who are far too ready to hesitate, to retreat on the past three years of the curricular review...