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...course, Saddam Hussein has helped him--political writers who haven't been to Kuwait since the end of the Gulf War are back. Yet al-Sabah wants Kuwait to be known not only as a jumping-off point for war but also as a locus of beaches, shopping and spas. He wants Kuwait to be cool. So he keeps fashion folk interested with events he knows are irresistible to them: Prada caftans! A T-shirt collaboration of British artist Gary Hume and Stella McCartney! Cappellini furniture, reconceived by fashion designers...
Those of us in the middle and lower-middle class do not have chef's kitchens, master suites, home theaters or bathroom spas. We less privileged Americans are lucky if we can afford a 1,000-sq.-ft. apartment, let alone a 2,000-sq.-ft. "starter home." And we cannot afford $100,000 renovations done by contractors. Get real! MARGARET E. LANGSTON New York City...
...nowhere, and our homes are a reflection of that. Sociologist Beck says Americans are so severely deprived of time, particularly leisure and vacation time, that they are trying to make up for it in their living quarters--and are doing a bang-up job. The master suites, the bathroom spas, the game rooms, the professional kitchens and the lobby-like great rooms are our way of turning our once humble abodes into luxury hotels. Feel free to put some chocolate on your pillow. --With reporting by Harriet Barovick, Lisa McLaughlin and Desa Philadelphia/New York, Jyl Benson/New Orleans, Leslie Everton Brice/Atlanta...
...case, Botox--the wrinkle-smoothing injection--is a metaphor for all kinds of vanity and health products and services that Baird says boomers will want in order to look young and live young into their 70s. These range from organic food and fresh juices to alternative medicines and health spas. Baird's firm owns Equinox Fitness Clubs, Elizabeth Arden Salons Holdings and the Grand Expeditions travel company and has interests in weight control, antiaging therapies and adult education. Healthy living, he estimates, is a $400 billion industry growing 15% annually. "The typical 75-year-old will tell you they...
...aids manufactured in largely unregulated Chinese factories. Classified by many countries as "health food"?rather than as pharmaceutical products, which must pass rigorous safety tests before they can be marketed?the concoctions are readily imported and sold in Asian pharmacies and natural-medicine shops, even in beauty parlors and spas. Indeed, Asians tend to trust Chinese medicines as natural and safe dietary shortcuts based on 3,000 years of trial and error. Ancient Chinese apothecaries, however, never treated obesity. Lacking a time-tested herbal cure, Chinese drugmakers are lacing their products with artificial chemicals. "These slimming pills are registered...