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Long before there were aerobics classes and juice bars, there was Jack LaLanne. His California health spa (started in 1936) was the country's first, and on his TV program, which aired from 1952 until 1986, he was a buoyant evangelist for fitness. At 60 he swam, handcuffed, 1 1/2 miles from Alcatraz to San Francisco's shore, towing a rowboat filled with 1,000 lbs. of sand. He still maintains a rugged regimen; up at 5 every morning, he works out an hour with weights before swimming for another hour. "My conscience is terrific," he says. "If I missed...
...Security Council, which he heads, expressed doubt that Yeltsin had either written or personally signed such a harsh new order: the name on the document was just a stamped facsimile. The President, who was reported to have left for a two-day "vacation inspection trip" at a lakefront spa, maintained silence...
...stay on a small island that is just within sight of an oil-tank farm and is located near a busy shipping channel and a sewage-treatment plant? Perhaps it's to bask on a beach of imported white Bahamian sand, flex pecs in the 22,000-sq.-ft. spa, volley at any of the 18 tennis courts or choose from more than 11 brands of bottled water at the local market...
...costs of the standard 30-day stay there. Today, Sierra Tucson is a different place. Where there used to be 313 beds for people with a host of mental-health problems, now there are only 70. The management has added to its offerings Miraval, a holistic health spa along the lines of the nearby tony Canyon Ranch. Some of those who still visit Sierra Tucson to cope with addictions do much of their therapy in short, intensive workshops. And more than three-quarters of them now pay the $650-a-night tab out of their own pockets...
THEY STREAMED INTO THE RESORT HOtel lobby Friday night, the best and the brightest of the new revolution, fatigued and untanned, still in suits rumpled from the Beltway fray. Here at the entrance to Miami's Doral Golf Resort and Spa was David Horowitz, leftist turned conservative author. Behind him strode movement martyr Judge Robert Bork, so foully denied a Supreme Court seat. And here was Richard Viguerie, political direct-mail pioneer and prodigal son. For the preceding few years on New Year's, Viguerie had partied with the enemy, surrounded by moderates and liberals in Hilton Head, South Carolina...