The Harvard physicist Russell Seitz wants to create what amounts to a giant oceanic bubble bath: bubbles trap air, which brightens them enough to reflect sunlight away from the surface of the earth.

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And these tents have stone bath tubs, open-air showers, terraces, designer furnishings, heavenly beds and views overlooking a little-visited corner of the northern savannah lands that are quite simply out of this world.

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"It's a recruiting gimmick a very expensive recruiting gimmick, and we think it's part of this, sadly, growing culture of militarism in our country, " said Gagnon, a peace activist from Bath who served in the Air Force in the Vietnam era.

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After being submerged in a bath that was warmer than the air, she found getting out unbearable.

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Luxe details include in-room bath products by La Prairie (Hotel Bel-Air is the only U.S. hotel to carry the Swiss brand specializing in anti-aging) and oversized baths with flat-screen TVs.

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