OZY Daily Dose

Traditional spas: When it comes to mud baths, healing waters and soothing bubbles, Italy does it better than anyone else. More than 200 thermal baths dot the boot, but the latest fad in personal pampering goes for an experience beyond mere H20. So-called "sensorial spas" aim to engage all senses: sight, smell, sound. The natural elements are key, of course, but here the ambiance takes center stage.

Eating marathons are so popular in Italy, they're almost an art form: pasta, salami, even chili peppers. As a popular proverb goes: "Our eyes are wider than our stomachs."But what about stuffing yourself with as many as 100 different varieties of ... bread? Sounds both delicious and carb-coma-inducing, right? If the thought of gorging on all kinds of fluffy, chewy, flavor-infused varieties of bready goodness has your mouth watering, you might want to get to Val d'Ultimo.

V.J. Beachem hears the critical radio calls. He reads the mean tweets. He's not aggressive enough, they say. He's afraid to take the big shot. Luckily for Notre Dame, their key to a potential March Madness run is adept at blocking out the noise."I listen to a lot of Frank Ocean, man. I like to keep it stress-free before the games."Boasting NBA-level athleticism and premier shooting ability, Beachem is far and away Notre Dame's most gifted player.

This week’s column includes a bonus clip (up top) from OZY’s Valentine’s Day event: Sex with Eugene, live! Enjoy. EUGENE, SIR: Is there a protocol for how much time after breaking up with someone that your friends can start dating them? My best friend has done this more than three times for me and this last time it was five months after. Seems short to me. He’s not snaky about it and asks first but still.

Thirty kilometers away from Senegal's capital city, Dakar, sits Lac Rose, separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a few sand dunes. Colored by algae and boasting almost more salt content than, well, salt, Lac Rose has nearby stables on its farthest side, and it's toward those stables, and the horses housed there, that we're heading. Hundreds of salt collectors harvesting salt from Lac Rose dot the lake's landscape as we drive by them, almost into them, and between the hills of salt and sand.

The author is serving a 20-year federal prison term for drug and money laundering charges. At 17, 18, there was nothing anyone could tell me. I was angry at the world; I was going to do what I was going to do and that was it. My mother died when I was a kid, my father had left when I was 3. The people who raised me were from a different world. This was about the struggle of not having parents, of having to prove yourself on a daily basis, to learn a new culture.

While the U.S. remains lukewarm about nuclear power, shutting down plants as much as it is opening new ones, the developing world is rapidly adding capacity. Ten new plants came online in 2016, nine of them in the developing world, supporting the largest addition of nuclear power since 1990. This is good news for people living in developing countries and for the global climate, but to make faster progress with safer designs, it is high time America started investing in next-generation nuclear power.

Rebecca Strong is a writer and a novelist.I had become a liability."Your wife is from Russia?" the Regional Security Officer (RSO) of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow asked my husband."Yes," Steve answered."And you were assigned here? With her?""She is an American citizen," my husband said, "and has been for a long time.""Doesn't matter," the RSO responded. "I'll need to run some checks and will call to speak to her tomorrow.

Because, since not everyone’s going to be good at sex, it’s much better to not be one of those not good at it than the other way around. EUGENE, SIR: What’s the most dangerous, precarious, physically outrageous, ill-advised place you have ever had sex? Inquiring minds want to know. —Name withheld by request Dear Melania: I am here. To help. Specifically you with your problems.

Delicious grilled radicchio. With every savory bite you probably assumed you were eating the real premium Italian veggie, right? Well, chances are, it was fake. Why? Because radicchio rosso di Treviso - the real thing, which is named after the tiny picturesque northern Italian town that gave birth to it - only grows in a fertile patch of foggy land where precious minerals flow in fresh mountain streams and radicchio farmers are considered artists.