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...image Gore wants the world to see is of a man who in defeat has a clearer idea of who he is and what he stands for. He pronounces himself "over it," and according to people close to him, he is generally more relaxed, more comfortable in his skin. "He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him," says former aide Elaine Kamarck. "He has a much more easygoing attitude toward the world than I ever knew him to have." One clue as to how he got there may be a little book...
...vicinity of captive salmon. In 1989 Peter Mantle, who owns a wild salmon and sea-trout sport fishery in Delphi on the west coast of Ireland, discovered that young trout returning to his river from the ocean were covered with lice that were boring through the trouts' skin and feasting on their flesh. The sea lice were breeding near newly installed salmon farms in the inlet fed by his river. By the time the salmon farmers started dosing their pens with anti-sea-lice chemicals, the sea-trout fisheries of the west of Ireland were effectively dead. "Sea-trout fishing...
...massage with Merlot? A soak in Sauvignon? A new beauty treatment is derived from the seductive if scientifically iffy idea that the grape's potent antioxidants can outwit the aging of the skin. Vinotherapy, as the process is called, was developed by the French (of course!) at the Caudalie Vinotherapy Spa in Bordeaux, where devotees indulge in body scrubs made from crushed Cabernet grape seeds or soak shoulder-deep in a barrel of spring water and grape extract. In the U.S., Napa Valley's Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, below, has couples sip wine in a brass tub filled with...
...entered the Ubud Sari Health Resort, call (62-361) 974 398, I opted for the Mandi Lulur, a beauty treatment usually reserved for women on their wedding day. My masseuse led me to a garden bungalow, where she massaged my knotted muscles with aromatic oils, then polished my skin with lulur, a traditional exfoliating paste made from pounded rice, turmeric and local spices. After a soak in a rose petal milk bath, I finished in the cedar-scented steam room. Relaxed, oiled and burnished, I floated blissfully back to my hotel on a curry-scented cloud. Had anyone asked...
...shopping bags. Iwasaki entertained world leaders and assorted celebrities, including Prince Charles, who scrawled his name?uninvited?on one of her favorite fans, and fashion designer Aldo Gucci, who spilled soy sauce on her kimono. The memoir details $5,000 costumes, how rice bran is good for softening skin and the difficulty of wearing okobo, or six-inch platform sandals. In his novel, Golden immersed the reader in the geisha world. Iwasaki tells about it, and there's a difference. Absent here are the lively prose, the vivid characters and the emotions that were all elements of Golden's book...