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...Zurzach in Switzerland. All recommended resorts are low-cost and open to anyone: they don't require visitors to sign up for a cure or a stay at a thermal hotel. Other delights include solariums, waterfalls, fountains, waterslides, saunas and mud baths. If you like to soak or wallow in a large town or ski resort, go to the "Grandes villes" or "Au ski" sections. Links lead to sites on the royal spas of Europe and vapor baths of the world, as well as hot springs in California and Japan...
...evening's final songs sends a shudder through the audience. The lyrics ask children to forgive parents' trespasses and impulsive behavior. "The hardest lessons in life," a verse concludes in Zulu, "are those learned too late, after so many untimely deaths. The children and ancestors wallow in sorrow because death haunts more than ever. Death brought by AIDS is death brought by adults who should know better...
...also a good time to be an old-economy guy. As the newfangled tech folk wallow in the remnants of their self-inflated bubble, Bush the oilman is primed to talk about old-fashioned Republican virtues like reduced government regulation, cheaper energy, smaller government and increased privatization - and, of course, a $1.3 trillion tax cut. It's all aimed at increasing the flow of capital and putting more spending money in American wallets...
...asleep during the Monica Lewinsky affair? Have its executives never watched "Judge Judy"? Americans watch television to wallow in scandal, not avoid it. NBC should be all over pill-popping athletes - yes, including our own guys and gals - and if it does the job responsibly, viewers will reward it. The Athens games, shaping up to be a fiesta of poor planning and security risks, should supply plenty of dirt for an enterprising network sports operation, and NBC should be on top of it like white on feta cheese...
...spent Saturday reading philosophy instead of attending synagogue, and found that my tradition was unwilling to let me wallow in my meaninglessness. Abraham Joshua Heschel, the greatest Jewish philosopher of our time, was only one of the many voices insisting that we start with what we can. "The teaching of Judaism is the theology of the common deed," he wrote. Doing things can make a difference. Powerful changes are in fact only possible by immersing ourselves in the world and trying to take part. "Perhaps the essential teaching of Judaism is that in doing the finite we may perceive...