Chicago boasts more Polish residents than Warsaw and now it's hijacking a salty secret from Eastern Europe - salt caves or salt rooms.  A recent Chicago Tribune article notes a suburban restaurant featuring a relaxing, spa-like respiratory restorative salt cave...

Wild winter weather across China crippled energy and transport, and caused roughly 3 billion US dollars of economic loss," according to today's China Daily.  For the past two weeks, snowstorms have pounded central, eastern and southern China "causing deaths, structural...