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...those spa-goers who are tired of Japanese sand baths and who contemplate Moroccan mud body wraps or Javanese exfoliating scrubs with a jaded sigh, there is now the Himalayan Tsangpo Ritual. The latest curiosity to emerge from the world apothecarium is based on sowa rigpa, or Tibetan traditional medicine, and is available at the Chi spas in the Edsa Shangri-La, Manila, and the Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok. It will also be introduced to spas at the chain's upcoming properties in the Maldives, New York City, Paris, and Boracay in the Philippines...
...decision banning the execution of people who rape children: he said he has long believed that "the most egregious of crimes" deserve the death penalty. When a leading Democrat is criticizing the Supreme Court for not being conservative enough, it's time for liberals to breathe a sigh of relief...
...expenses by a few prominent Conservatives will dent the Tories' substantial lead in the polls. But fresh challenges are piling up thick and fast for Labour's hapless leader, including industrial action this weekend by tanker-truck drivers that could cause fuel shortages. Even as Brown breathed a sigh of relief over his narrow escape in the Commons, civil servants were briefing him about an embarrassing security breach in which secret government documents about al-Qaeda were left on a commuter train...
...geologists talk about eons. "Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment ... when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal," he said. When he was done, voters on all sides could sigh in relief, if only because at least the first heat of this amazing race is finally over...
Most Lebanese are breathing a sigh of relief that civil war was averted after the violent clashes of two weeks ago, but Suleiman faces some unenviable challenges in the weeks and months ahead to preserve that peace and stability. Suleiman, 59, is the 12th president of Lebanon and a Maronite Christian, like all his predecessors, due to a sectarian power-sharing formula devised in 1943 when Lebanon gained independence. Since 1989, when the formula was adjusted, the President in Lebanon does not hold executive power - that authority belongs to the Prime Minister - but Suleiman stands to play an influential role...