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...first spotted A Course in Miracles on a friend's Manhattan coffee table. By 1983 she was lecturing on the text for the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, a metaphysical center, while supporting herself as an office temp. Today she gives three sermons a week, charging $7 a head, to those who can pay. In addition, she travels monthly to New York City, where her lecture brings in 1,000 listeners at a time. She has recorded more than 50 cassettes summarizing the course, lectures regularly on public-access TV and next year will publish her first book...
...Manhattan investigator probing B.C.C.I...
...cannot -- take time for $ the lengthy luxury of a resort spa still want tiny bites of that bliss. Increasingly they are getting them by popping around the corner to a day spa, where a body scrub, mud bath or Shiatsu massage can be had in a jiffy. From Manhattan to Los Angeles, the body-friendly pit stops are becoming the trendiest way to deal with clangorous city existence. "All the stress just falls away," says Susan Luokkala, a Los Angeles financial manager who makes regular visits to an urban oasis...
...Susan Ciminelli's retreat for the tired masses in Manhattan, New Age music fills the air. Rock crystals are placed throughout the establishment to give "a sense of calm relaxation," she explains. Ciminelli, who calls city spas "maintenance," offers a menu of seaweed facials and body treatments, all priced at about $65. Patrons at Beverly Hot Springs in Los Angeles bathe in marble-and-stone pools, then stretch out to be rubbed with a velvety mixture of oil and honey, and finish off with a facial pack of freshly grated cucumber. Total cost...
Dorit Baxter opened a spa in midtown Manhattan after listening to her skin- care clients say how they longed to visit a spa for only two hours. Now they can get slathered in a thick green paste made from Mediterranean seaweed, baked, cooled, cleansed, and then zip back to the office in little more than an hour. Her first male customers, Baxter reports, appeared reluctantly, at the urging of a wife or a girlfriend. Now, they book such treatments as a head-to-toe application of mud from the Dead Sea or a deep-muscle vibration massage. Robert MacDonald, partner...