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...The FT visited Detroit this week to take the pulse of the Motor City — stay tuned for our report later this weekend. The history of the Lions overlaps with the history of Detroit itself....
...The first step on the circuit is five to 10 minutes in the salt pool to warm the body, quicken the pulse and relax the muscles and mind....
...Spa: None, but staff can recommend local day spas for treatments. Rates: Double, from S$284 (about £170)....
...As my pulse returns to normal, Scaringe unspools his life story. When he was a teenager, he started tinkering with cars and restoring them....
...At the Medil in Campitello there is a delightful spa and excellent, aubergine-heavy Italian home cooking....
...“Especially in my professional life, my pulse is not my key priority, and if I did wish to take my pulse, I would use a serious medical instrument,” he says....
...As I gazed, slack-jawed, a member of staff explained that the giant chandelier above our heads lights up to the rhythm of your pulse....
...There are no mirrors for men to admire their muscles and no spa in which to relax after your workout; a curtained cubicle suffices for a changing room....
...But as the casinos lost market share to Macau, Singapore and the rest of the US, Vegas shifted its emphasis to paying customers, and to rooms, food, and spas, with the best hidden away in exclusive “hotels...
...Hotel spas from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas to the Dolder Grand in Zurich offer snow-filled rooms, while an Austrian company is marketing a real-snow shower....
...The new 85-bedroom hotel will include seven suites, a business centre, private cinema, spa and fitness centre and will be at the top end of the luxury market....
...little dusty, like an English day, where there’s sun after a lot of rain,” said Burberry’s designer, Christopher Bailey, describing his new take on Burberry’s symbolic garment, the trench, which came in shower-proof...
...Its Arto range combines a compact body length with a modern spa area that has one of the largest showers ever found in a motorhome. €74,000-€106,000....
...Spending Pulse, which estimates retail spending, says luxury goods were the worst hit retail category in the last two months of 2008....
...In the UK, PZ Cussons’ £75m purchase of the Sanctuary Spa brand – which sells body care products through retailer Boots – from HG Capital last year helped boost sales over Christmas....
...He also manages to take a swipe at AIG executives who were recently revealed to have held retreats at expensive spas while collecting bailout money from the government. “That surprises me....
...I’m not usually the biggest fan of hotel spas but the set-up at the Grand Hyatt is special....
...Switzerland is Wellness Inc – just looking at it makes you feel better....
...Rooms are decorated in calming earthy colours and have flat screen TVs, pillow-top mattresses and separate shower and soaking tubs....
...BA’s lounge at JFK offers a Molton Brown Travel Spa, with hydrotherapy showers, reflexology treatments and specially designed pre- and post-flight massages, while Cathay Pacific’s lounge at Hong Kong International...
...The Heavenly Bath is designed to provide travellers with a therapeutic shower spa and luxurious bath amenities....
...So it should not have surprised me when the former president emerged from his home, in Plains, Georgia, wearing a grey shower-proof jacket, heavy checked shirt and blue jeans, with a rash of white stubble...
...And if you are a chief executive, or just a rich Londoner at a loose end, they want your money not just for beds but for conferences, weddings and, inevitably, the spa which they claim will, with 15 treatment...
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