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This is an indictment that he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old college student and employee of the Lodge and Spa at Cordillera in Edwards, Colo., while he was staying there for knee surgery. The complaint, brought by Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert, reads that Bryant "unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly inflicted sexual intrusion or sexual penetration on" his accuser, whose name was withheld by police and the press...
...June 30, Bryant left L.A. for a tendinitis operation that was to be performed the next day at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, the town of plutocrat-posh ski-resort fame. Bryant and his entourage checked in to the Lodge and Spa. Around 11 that night, his accuser, a concierge and receptionist at the hotel, went off duty. According to the Los Angeles Times, Bryant called his wife from his hotel room at 11:13. Some time later, perhaps around 11:30, the young woman visited Bryant's room. Why she went there, and what happened next...
...such coastal delights are agritourism, where you pay to smell what cows do to grass, and "edge" trips, where you are charged big bucks to risk your life scaling or jumping off something. There's also the wellness jaunt, where you try to buy back misspent youth in a spa. And then there are excursions for culture vultures, those the English poet Philip Larkin called "ruin-bibbers, randy for antique." Whatever form vacation takes, we keep on doing it - we may even want to do it more to escape all the talk of terror and war. We are escapaholics convinced...
...case at most spas, the majority of teens who visit Belle Visage are the daughters and sons (18% of the spa's teen clients are boys seeking help for acne or massage for muscle aches) of longtime clients. Some moms even throw spa parties at which their daughters and friends can spend an afternoon getting manicures, pedicures, minifacials and makeup instruction. "I laugh because it took me until I was 30 to have my first massage, and certainly until I was 40 to have a facial," says Dave Phillips, general manager of the Hyatt Regency Hill Country spa. "These kids...
...everyone is heralding this era. "Teens could do a lot better by quitting the fast food and chocolate," says Caren Penland, 23, who visited her first spa in Arlington, Texas, last year. "I think it's teaching them that instead of taking care of yourself, you can have someone...