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...pier by horse-drawn carriages. When they ventured forth from the hotel, it was by horse or buggy or bike. And so it is today, as a ban on automobiles enacted a century ago remains in force. Like those early travelers, today's Grand guests sit in big, wooden rockers on what, at 660 ft., is still the world's longest hotel porch...
...right field, Ichiro puts on a calisthenics clinic. If he's not rolling his shoulders, he's stretching his quads. If he's not stretching his quads, he's bending at the waist and touching his toes. When he sits at his locker, Ichiro methodically rubs a 15-cm wooden stick up and down the sides and the bottoms of his feet. "It's for pressure points," he says through an interpreter. "If your feet are healthy, you're healthy." In an effort to keep his vision sharp, Ichiro rarely watches television for extended periods without wearing sunglasses. Before every...
...checking his nets with helper Alvics Cabilo, 21, when over the horizon came the throbbing of huge horsepower, more powerful than anything normally found in the waters off the Philippines' rugged western Palawan province. The speedboat had no lights; only when it pulled alongside, its rolling wake slapping his wooden outrigger, did Cervantes see the 50-mm cannon rigged on the bows, the 24 men in jungle fatigues and balaclavas, the M-16s pointed at his chest. "Take us to Dos Palmas," demanded a voice with a southern Mindanao accent. Cervantes was to get his visit after...
...fact. In the first few days of fasting, guests can expect "nausea, dizziness, headaches, exhaustion, heaviness, bloating and moods of anger, depression, fear, sadness and even excitement." Smoking and alcohol are banned and there's no restaurant. Guests can keep their colonic tubes, however. Wooden bungalows are extra at $7.50-$17.50 a night. Call (66-77) 234-170 or check out dharmahealing.com...
Instead of standing before graduates and sending them off with carefully polished platitudes, General Electric (GE) CEO Jack Welch sat in a wooden Harvard chair and answered the sometimes-probing questions of one gradating student at the Harvard Business School (HBS) Class Day ceremony yesterday...