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...Samui's hot bodies, but you can check out the weather and the eye candy between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Thailand time. Reach For The Spas (faraway.co.th/ko_samui_island_spa.htm) To Your Health If enemas are your bag or you're into the whole pampering trip, here's a good basic primer on the types of services you can expect to find amid Koh Samui's profusion of spas and health resorts...
...much. Ever since the McDonald brothers perfected a method for deep-frying julienned potatoes and an Idaho researcher figured out how to freeze and refry the potatoes for mass consumption, fast-food chains, where some 40% of the U.S. potato crop ends up, have been serving the same basic burger accoutrement. After health concerns about the high fat content of fries were raised more than a decade ago, McDonald's switched in 1990 from a blend of beef tallow and cottonseed oil to pure vegetable oil in its deep fryers. Now McDonald's and the others are scrambling to respond...
...cellular or your land-line service as your main communications link. Load it with the monthly minutes you need at the best possible price while subscribing to a bare-bones plan for your little-used secondary phone. If your land line is your primary phone, you can get a basic cell-phone plan from T-Mobile for $19.99 a month, including a free phone. That will give you 60 minutes to use anytime, plus 500 weekend and nighttime minutes. Be careful, however, not to underestimate how often you use a cell phone. Exceed your allotted minutes, and the per-minute...
...service on your home phone may sound extreme, but if you mainly use your cell and rarely dial area codes, it might be a smart move. According to Yankee Group research, 12% of phone users ages 18 to 24 get by with cell phones alone. By subscribing only to basic local service, you can lower your monthly land-line fee to $20 or less. Just keep a prepaid phone card around for long distance. In short, buy a plan that suits you, and maybe you'll have more time--but less reason--to complain. --With reporting by Jonah Freedman
...Washington to adopt a long-term "thoughtful energy policy." Let's not continue to do what doesn't work. A better approach is to let individuals and organizations do what makes sense to them and let America's energy policy come from the bottom up. The government should fund basic research but not try to promote specific types of new technologies. When they are ready for commercialization, they will come to market. Our goal should be not to attain energy self-sufficiency but to avoid relying too much on any one fuel or region. As long as the government doesn...