In Luhuitou Bay, the Banyan Tree Sanya (6 Luling Road, Sanya; 800-591-0439 in America; www.banyantree.com/en/sanya/index.html; from 3,100 yuan) is closer to the action, but the 61 pool villas make privacy and spa indulgence the priority.
Information: parrotcay.como.bz $24,200 Villa Rockstar WHERE: Eden Rock, St. Bart's WHAT YOU GET: A circular bathroom tiled in pure white gold; four suites with deep soaking tubs; a butler; a Land Rover and Mini Cooper in the garage; two extra cabins for your entourage or staff; 10-foot walls around the estate for privacy, a pool table, gym, swimming pool and bar.
The pool, the trees, the privacy.
Get there early to enjoy this pool in peace and privacy.
Carol and Dan Brachfeld, who live in Manhattan, owned a weekend home in Washington for 18 years, but once their children left home, they decided they wanted a pool, more land and privacy.
She anchored the corners with dense Pfitzer junipers, which have a dark, lacy quality, and planted layers of flowering shrubs including several species of hydrangea, white rose of Sharon, and lavender blue vitex, which give the pool a sense of privacy and enclosure.
The design of the Hillside Pool Suites gives you total privacy and actually makes you want to spend time away from the beach.
A traditional stone house with green-painted shutters, a crazy-paved terrace, a backdrop of trees for privacy and a pool fringed with bougainvilla, it does all that a holiday home should without distracting you with unnecessary frills.
And because all of us potentially could have electronic medical records that voluntarily — with strong privacy protections — we pool together so that researchers, practitioners, scientists can share, we may be able to accelerate the process of discovering cures in ways that we've never seen before".
Evidently finding a way to close down the legal liabilities and/or engineer consent from users to that degree of murky privacy intrusion — involving pools of aggregated personal data gathered by goodness knows who, how, where or when — was a bridge too far for the company's army of legal and policy staffers.
