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...girls even have celebrity apparel adorning the walls of their ecclectic abode. This summer, while interning for Tiger Beat magazine, Tanenhaus snatched Jessica Simpsons tank top and Christina Aguilleras red-silk rhinestone bra (she reports it is extremely padded...
...chose a three-day trip aboard a junk called the Huang Hai. The sight of her great red cotton sails, hand-stitched with silk, was too picturesque to refuse. So it was something of a disappointment to discover the sails were pure decoration: diesel engines power the vessel. Other modernizations, however, met with wholehearted approval. Below deck, the Huang Hai is loaded with creature comforts. It has eight twin-bedded cabins with attached bathrooms and hot showers. Inside the pilot's hatch is a consoling array of gadgetry, including a global positioning satellite system. And the galley is a paneled...
...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...
...Varrier takes me to Silk Street, which was the Chinese quarter in Zheng He's day. But he warns me against getting my hopes too high: "There's nothing Chinese about it now." He's right. Silk Street is a narrow lane, not far from the beach, and none of the bungalows shows signs of antiquity. Where the Chinese once built a fortified warehouse and quarters for high-ranking traders - including, presumably, the admiral - now stands an Islamic school. Zheng He, a Muslim, might have approved. Next, we make our way to the center of town, the site...
...Lanka where Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam can be found side by side. On it, inscriptions in Chinese, Tamil and Persian praise Buddha, Shiva and Allah in equal measure. According to the tributes, alms to each deity - 1,000 pieces of gold, 5,000 of silver, rolls of embroidered silk and taffeta, gold vases and scented oil - were offered in scrupulously identical lots. The offerings and the stela, erected by Zheng He on his third trip to the island, were failed bids at diplomacy. When his efforts were frustrated by the fractious locals, too busy fighting each other to pay adequate...