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...week (excluding bamboo bungalow rooms that range from $6 to $45 a night), the Spa at Samui's eastern Lamai beach offers nothing less than the elixir of youth. With promises of "a longer and happier life," derivative traders, TV producers, flight attendants and other visitors swallow herbal nutrition tablets, quaff detoxifiers and regularly flush their insides. The talk over laxative tea runs from the latest stock fluctuations to?I'm not joking?the day's excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of the Perfect Cleansing in Thailand | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...wasn't just any team. The 2000 edition of the Crimson football team broke countless records, had the most potent Harvard offense in over a century, and showed resiliency and promise on the defensive end. It was this great potential for success that made the losing so tough to swallow...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Flirts With Ivy Title, But Falls Short | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...made the mistake of opening my eyes under the water, which appeared to be some kind of reddish-yellow, but nothing serious happened. I didn't swallow until I had climbed onto the dock, when I let out a "Two-B" yell that, I like to think, frightened the Currier women just as much as seeing a short skinny guy flying over their boat moments earlier...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zevi Metal : Getting Off the Sideline and Onto the Field | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...bitterest pill to swallow during the 1950-51 season was a 10-9 loss to future Beanpot rival Boston College. To this day, the defeat marks the only occasion that a Harvard hockey team has lost a game after scoring nine goals...

Author: By David R. De remer and Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Football Fumbles; Other Sports Step Up | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...consolation prize of fiscal independence. Without a marriage to tend, we give our children all our energy, and much prefer their company to the occasional blind dates we force ourselves to go on. We don't like the way bitterness tastes in the back of our mouth, so we swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Single Life | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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