"Europeans are usually more concerned with quality hotel accommodations, good food and one-of-a-kind shopping, " says Chrismar Kuhn, a Basel-based luxury travel agent and fan of Sylt, a German North Sea island.

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The rooms had been refurbished several years earlier, when important guests from India had come for a long stay, and so Husna would live in better quarters than ever before in her life, with uninterrupted supplies of good food, servants who more or less did her bidding, and the occasional use of a car.

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Food fears and environmental qualms spread more readily than good sense or wise science.

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Bringing food from abroad into areas struggling with hunger often does more harm than good.

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We must ask how much good could be done if this money were dedicated to food, medicine, more cost-effective forms of education or establishing small businesses and other economic development.

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The menu, however, is much subtler, offering playful, family-style food, inspired by a variety of Asian cuisines, and, more often than not, quite good.

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Could women who take HRT feel so good about themselves they drink more, they enjoy themselves more, they even smoke more, eat more unhealthy food, couldn't that be giving them the cancer?

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The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said even though air quality in the UK is "generally good, more needs to be done, especially in the cities, to reduce the harmful effects of air pollution".

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This particular part of your brain gets more activated when you perceive something potentially good for you out there in the environment, and it could be things like food if you're hungry, or water, or money.

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