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...most common biometric security system so far is the fingerprint scanner. In Japan a developer is installing the devices in 360 luxury homes as a security selling point. A health spa in Denver employs a print scanner to keep track of how often its members use the facilities. MAPCO Inc. of Tulsa relies on a system from Identix, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., to ensure that only authorized truck drivers are allowed to transport loads of dangerous gases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting The Finger on Security | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...their many millions, Hyatt transformed a stark moonscape of black lava rock with not so much as a sprig of vegetation into a 62-acre tropical garden, ringed by three towers, 1,241 rooms, seven restaurants, 75,000 sq. ft. of convention space, a 17,500-sq.-ft. health spa, 1,640 transplanted coconut-palm trees at $1,000 apiece and water everywhere else. The design is the work of Christopher Hemmeter, a sort of revolutionary in the resort business. His tastes run toward the liquid: private lagoons full of sociable fish, waterfalls, whirlpools, water slides and vast, curvaceous pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Wait'll We Tell the Folks Back Home | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

Kitty tried to put together a new life, signing a $175,000 book contract and registering with a speakers' bureau. She also traveled, taking a trip to an Arizona spa. And apparently she drank. Enough to alarm her family and, most important, herself. Doctors do not believe she has had the time to become heavily dependent on alcohol, but they say her earlier experience with amphetamines evidently set off warning bells. "She recognized that her recovery was a day-to-day thing, and she is an addictive person," says Paul Costello, her press secretary during the campaign. She has struggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Struggle of Kitty Dukakis | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...other partners. The first, Morgans, on Madison Avenue, is so discreet that no name appears outside, and cab drivers have to intuit its location. They have plans for two more, including the Barbizon, once a stately hotel for women only, which they intend to turn into an "urban spa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: An Ocean Cruise in Manhattan | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Cliff concert, arranged by former CouncilChairperson Evan J. Mandery '89 and former socialcommittee chairperson Jonathan S. Leff '90, comesone semester after several shows discussed by thefull council failed to take place. This spring,after an SPA representative had already verballyagreed to a concert date with rock legend ChuckBerry, the council voted not to hold the show,saying it would be too short and too expensive...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Tickets for Jimmy Cliff Show Available Today | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

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