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Considering that spas are supposed to be about pampering, it's odd that so many of them deal in unalluring stuff like mud facials and seaweed wraps. How about something more in keeping with the luxurious surroundings and sky-high prices? Realizing that not everyone wants to be smeared in algae or scoured with salt, some spas are offering therapies featuring[an error occurred while processing this directive] caviar, chocolate, even champagne. If you want to put the aah back in spa, skip the kelp masks and go straight for these top-dollar treatments. BEVERLY HILLS: You're not about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expensive Tastes | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...occurred while processing this directive] northern Paris housing projects where he lived. He has since developed a clothing and sports line that has grown at least 100% every year. Its founder built Airness around his own early street-level observation: kids determine what's hip, not the companies hawking stuff to them. "By observing what people were buying or looking for, I could react faster to current trends and demand and anticipate what would work next," says Koné. Airness has the irresistible cool derived from celebrities the French love most: football stars. How did Koné swing that when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hippest Cat in France | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...says. “I figured I knew myself better than they did.”But freshman year roommate George H. Bouchard remembers Leder as “a sophisticated Washington man.” “I was in awe of all of the stuff that he knew,” he recalls. A biochemical sciences concentrator, Leder dabbled in German and even participated in “Verein Turmwaechter,” a social and cultural club for Germanophiles. But Leder says he focused his time on academics. “My major...

Author: By Noah S. Bloom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Genetics Researcher Came From Modest Roots | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...first two months. I was lonely; I had never been away from my family. It was rough, and school was rough. And the chefs were so hard on us. For an American girl who's used teachers that are nice to you, they were evil. They threw stuff at us - sauces, knives. It is a different mentality. They were treating us the way they were treated coming up, and they were letting us have it. Nobody can prepare you for that. But it's not like that any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get To Know Giada | 6/2/2006 | See Source »

...froufrou. Mills positioned Yoplait's brand, with a wink and a nod, around French culture and used marketing techniques equally foreign to the early '80s such as hot-air balloons and vans parked at marathons for tastings. "'Real Americans,' guys like Jack Klugman and Tommy Lasorda, would eat this stuff with a skeptical look and then burst into French extolling its virtues," recalls Sanger. "It got the point across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yogurt Nation | 5/30/2006 | See Source »

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