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...career in the restaurant business. He's an expert listener, overhearing conversations that enable him to rub off his rough edges and advance his interests. He begins as a waiter in a provincial pub and moves on to a posh Prague restaurant, then to service in a high-end spa. That establishment becomes a camp full of often naked Nazi boys and girls, earnestly attempting to create a genetically perfected Master Race. In time, as the war goes badly for the Germans, it becomes a military hospital. By then, however, Jan has married a Hitlerite, who dies leaving...
...next day's hangover will be ministered to in a private spa suite, and on a reserved "opium bed" at the hotel's Oasis Beach Club, from which you can contemplate the six-course dinner for eight that will be prepared for you in your suite that evening. And if there aren't any paparazzi staking out your floor, well, maybe the hotel can arrange that, too. For more information, call...
...iPod docks and wi-fi, but also sturdy oak beams recycled from abandoned factories, hand-cut Italian terra-cotta tiles in the bathrooms, and custom-made furniture inspired by early 20th century designs. A stay also grants you access to perhaps the hotel's truest luxury: its subterranean Shibui spa and pool. Low lit and nearly silent, the space contains an original 18th-century bamboo home from Tokyo, meticulously reconstructed onsite...
...half in the terminal, and the minicity inside Terminal 5 tries hard to occupy that time. The space is outfitted with free WiFi and XM radio, big screen TVs at every gate and plenty of outlets for recharging cell phones and laptops. There's a resident pharmacist, a day spa and later, if all goes as planned, there will be holiday concerts, art exhibits, and perhaps even theater and dance performances. Ten shops circle the atrium - the bustling heart of the blue-hued terminal, at the fork of the its "Y" - including luxe retailers such as Lacoste and the Japanese...
Bali resident Susan Stein does one of the better things a person can do for their unskilled domestic staff: she teaches them to become something else. It all began casually nine years ago, when the American spa trainer began showing her security guards and gardeners how to give massages to her house guests. She later realized that the skills she was imparting could create better futures for her staff by enabling them to enter the island's important resort industry. From this came Jari Menari (dancing fingers) - part vocational-training enterprise, part massage center and something Stein calls...