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...stories are brief and flavorful. In a short introduction to the book, he presents his vignettes as recently discovered fragments containing alternative versions of “The Odyssey.” One story has Odysseus (here named “Mr. O.”) living in a sanatorium, where he spends his days trying to remember a distant war. Another has him as Agamemnon’s prized assassin, faced with the unfortunate order of killing himself. Sticking with the pretext of fragmentation, Mason never fully fleshes out the action in each tale. As a result, his stories...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mason Reinvents Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in ‘The Lost Books’ | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...true inventor is unknown, but Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has as good a claim to the title as anyone. In 1895, the cereal pioneer patented a process for turning raw peanuts into a butter-like vegetarian health food that he fed to clients at his Battle Creek, Mich., sanatorium. The taste caught on, and in a few years, the spread had gone mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Peanut Butter | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Created by the Double Edge Theatre, produced in association with the American Repertory Theatre, and directed by Stacy Klein, “Republic of Dreams” revolves around two of Schulz’s short-story collections: “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass” and “Street of Crocodiles...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Dreams’ Is a Daring Vision | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

...Western Europeans have been the first to catch on to this bargain, particularly young budget travelers?they make up almost half of the guests at the 143-room Aurora sanatorium, tel: (996-39) 437 3389. Situated outside the town of Cholpon-Ata, Aurora offers full board and a range of treatments for just $60 a night. When not taking baths in sulfur-rich mud hauled up from Lake Issyk-Kul's shore (the mud is said to be good for skin disorders and arthritis), or breathing the air in one of the salt rooms (therapeutic, apparently, for people with asthma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spa Trek | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...shoreline. Today, many of these facilities - now privately run - are luring holidaymakers from further afield with cheap accommodation and treatment packages. West Europeans have been the first to catch onto this bargain, particularly young budget travelers - they make up almost half of the guests at the 143-room Aurora, sanatorium tel: (996-39) 437 3389. Situated outside the town of Cholpon-Ata, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spa Trek | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

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