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...enthusiasm for massage, a practice at least as old as grooming? (Earliest known spa: the Roman bath.) Many therapists attribute it to people's greater awareness of the effect stress has on health, and the wider acceptance of alternative or complementary medicine. Then there's the Pashmina effect, wherein goods and services originally marketed to the very rich become repackaged for the mass market. And some point to the isolation and lack of physical contact in contemporary society, where much communication is done electronically and any touch could be considered inappropriate. "People don't touch that much. They're watching...
...event, drug manufacturers are unlikely to let this back door open much wider. Since they make more money on drugs sold in the U.S., they will doubtless limit shipments to Canada if too many Americans start buying there...
...developing a “special relationship” with the U.S. They reason that our two nations have more shared self-interest than exists with other countries, and they conclude that we should co nsult with each another on foreign policy issues before we turn to the wider international community. British Prime Minister Tony Blair uses this doctrine to justify support for a U.S. invasion of Iraq and for Britain’s continued commitment of military re sources to the war on terrorism and the campaign in Afghanistan...
Michelle Filippo, marketing manager at St. Martin’s Press, said the decision to revamp the series to target a wider audience was not made unilaterally by the publishing company...
...London's Daily Telegraph ran a page-wide headline: "Naval might defeats boys' slingshots." But it's not really so funny. The political waters beneath Perejil are deep and dangerous. If Spain and Morocco can't get along - and recently this has been so in spades - then the wider North Africa region and the European Union probably can't build bridges, psychological and political, across the 13 km of water separating them. That means some of the critical issues for both sides - immigration, the north-south poverty gap, drugs, and nasty colonial hangovers - won't be addressed, let alone resolved...