The research takes a year to compile and is 60 pages long, but on the following pages you'll find the highlights. If you're seeing these trends emerge at your favorite spas, let us know in the comments section.


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With the pomp and circumstance of the Inauguration come the parties, and for revelers this Inaugural weekend, the official balls have been scaled down to two while unofficial soirees fill the weekend's social calendar. The Presidential Inaugural Committee is hosting just two official Inaugural balls this year compared to the ten official balls in 2009. The two balls, which will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Monday, will be the lowest number of balls held by a...

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We live in uncertain times. Uncertainty spooks financial markets and keeps a lid on lending. It gives millions of businesses a legitimate argument to sit on the sidelines hoarding trillions of dollars that could otherwise fuel meaningful economic expansion. That private sector money could fuel the most effective "stimulus program" this country has ever known if only some market confidence could be fostered. But these are all things that are beyond our control.


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By SHANA DRUCKERMAN and EDWARD LOVETT For wedding mishaps — cake falls on ground, bride and bridesmaids break bed, wedding party falls into lake — there’s YouTube. For canceled weddings, there’s BridalBrokerage.com. The start-up company makes a market between previously remote parties on the wedding...


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The National Marrow Donor Program has the right idea. Pointing out that African-American patients in particular need your help, organizers have challenged its members to 'honor the principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.' by considering the Be The Match initiative for inspiration. But if lack of motiviation isn't the primary obstacle to celebrating MLK Jr. Day Monday, then perhaps some guidance will do the trick. Bottom line: Opportunties are abundant, so there's no reason just to sit there...

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In intimate White House ceremony, Obama to be sworn in Sunday for second term


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Merkel risks setback, challenger seeks boost as state vote kicks off Germany's election year


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The best quotes of the week.


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Transgender at 11: Listening to Jazz;Progeria: A Growing Hope


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Part 1: Barbara Walters catches up with a girl who says she was born in the wrong body.


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