Word: spartan
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...convenient place to stay is the Hotel Savona. Though Spartan, it's in the thick of the city. Build up your appetite on Saturday morning walking through the street market that snakes through the town center. Here you will find everything from suits and shoes and leather to sexy wool underwear. While in Alba, you will want to tuck into the most popular wine bar, VinCafe, for lunch or late-afternoon coffee or wine. For a casual truffle dinner, I'm fond of La Liberia, which serves the homey food of the region and is one of the few places...
...than mere weight loss, the Mayr Health Spa, tel: (43-427) 325110, offers a system of "intestinal regeneration" based on the theories of founding physician Dr. Franz Xaver Mayr. A pristine setting near the country's W?rther See and its adjacent golf course might keep your mind off the Spartan diet...
...buffs come home at last in the Brattle Theatre, which prides itself on showcasing only classics, indies and international imports. The theater will hold private screenings for parties upward of 15 guests on any day of the week. Originally a church, its past life is still evident in the spartan architecture. The turquoise fold-up seats and plush red carpets offer endearingly eccentric touches, accentuated by the theater’s dim lighting and faintly musky scent. Hosts choose from the theater’s collection of thousands of films. And, for a modest increase, friendly owner Ned Hinkle will...
...elusive study, returning from Europe in 1953 to live a double life: one Pol Pot holds secret political meetings in a spartan shack in a Phnom Penh slum; the other courts a high-society belle in a black Citro?n sedan and "dances very well, in the Western style," a colleague recalled. Short attributes this duality to a "gift for subterfuge"?Pol Pot was so secretive that many mid-level Khmer Rouge officials did not know his real identity until two years after he had seized power. (Pol Pot is a nom de guerre adopted in 1970.) "You could not tell...
...illness. For the past five years, Andrea Tiktin-Fanti, 61, of Uhrichsville, Ohio, has been adhering to a 1,200-calorie-a-day diet--about half what U.S. women typically eat. Diabetes killed both her parents in their 60s, but her diabetes is under control, thanks to her Spartan diet. "If I live to 85 or 90," she says, "I will have extended my life-span, and I'll be real happy with that...