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...Sammons and her late husband Charles bought the now 88-year-old Grove in 1955, they've spent almost $200 million restoring its elegance as they have brought it up to date. Perhaps the most spectacular project so far is a just-opened $40 million, 40,000-sq.-ft. spa. Its theme is consistent with the style that distinguishes the entire property and moved Architectural Digest to judge Grove Park "one of the most important and most well-preserved vestiges of the Arts and Crafts movement." Built from huge boulders so that only unfinished rock face is exposed...
...retrofitting the 389-room main building to more than meet California earthquake standards. Rooms have been reconfigured and refurbished; restaurants, terraces and an oceanfront lawn have been added. Pending discussions with civic and environmental groups, the corporation hopes to build more guests rooms, a vast conference center and a spa-and-fitness facility; add more green space; place most parking underground; and restore a classic garden...
...fasting centers and rudimentary health retreats have little in common with the luxurious, pampering spa resorts that sprang up across Asia in the late 1990s. Like other Gulf of Thailand getaways, many were once the preserve of the pierced and tattooed classes. But as onetime travelers swapped backpacks for briefcases and Koh Samui opened an airport, the resorts found themselves swamped with stressed-out executives in need of a little spiritual care...
...week (excluding bamboo bungalow rooms that range from $6 to $45 a night), the Spa at Samui's eastern Lamai beach offers nothing less than the elixir of youth. With promises of "a longer and happier life," derivative traders, TV producers, flight attendants and other visitors swallow herbal nutrition tablets, quaff detoxifiers and regularly flush their insides. The talk over laxative tea runs from the latest stock fluctuations to?I'm not joking?the day's excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites...
...faculty advisor to the group. He says he supported the SPA's position on the war but felt killing officers went too far. Nevertheless, on the basis of some informal reading of Supreme Court decisions on sedition and the First Amendment, he assured the students they were on sound legal ground...