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...Last Friday, Latham was sharing a series of mature Côte de Beaune burgundies from his own cellar, a group that would be nearly impossible to find in any store. Latham’s personal notes on the wines ranged from “funky” to “great burgundy nose, what a pleasure to flood the senses with this nose.” The best were deep and richly fruity, even slightly tart, with an intoxicating smell...
...corner, and a telephone that mewed like a cat when someone rang. More than once on my visits in April, and again last August, Kwame repeated an adage that an old schoolteacher of his had used: there is no such thing as African time. "There is no store in the world that sells an African watch or an African clock. We all use the same clock," he told me. "And yet Africans use African time as an excuse. We have to be serious." Overhead, a fan chopped through the humidity. "According to my age," said Kwame as I was leaving...
...America, already has a small-scale, inflatable space station--hotel in orbit, an outgrowth of his curiosity about UFOs. New Mexico wants to become the Cape Canaveral of space tourism, but six other proposed spaceports across the country are vying for business too. There's even an Orbital Outfitters store to provide space suits for civilians--whether portly or petite...
...giddy over an ottoman--although less soat 35,000 ft. And much less so for a flat bed and my own 21-sq.-ft. "suite"--a good 60% larger than my drone-class cubicle at the office. The amenities kit rivaled a department-store cosmetics counter and contained not the usual pair of amorphous tube socks, but ones with heels. From one of my four windows, Maserati champagne cocktail in hand, I spotted an easyJet plane, its 34 rows brimming with my people: coach folk. But today I had traded my peanuts for canaps. All 48 seats...
...time the British granted Trinidad independence in 1962, Carnival had become a national holiday, one in which virtually the entire nation shuts down to party. "It's a celebration of people of all races and cultures. It's the ultimate expression of freedom," said Gregory Reece, 26, a store manager who chatted with me as I danced past his home. "I don't think there are many other countries where you can see Hindus, Muslims and Christians jumping together for two straight days...