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...world of audio equipment, where most stuff appears to be designed for old men who wear Hush Puppies. The red-and-black box that the Beats come in is an objet d'art - including drawers and panels like those of the jewelry box your mom got on a trip to Asia - that makes even Apple's uniquely stylish packaging look unimaginative and overly simple. The headphones collapse and fit into a neat, football-sized carrying case. Monster, known for its high-end cables, gives you one standard cable (in red!) and another one (black), which has a mic built...
With a price tag of $1 million, the trip is outlandishly decadent. But it's partly for a good cause: for each trip booked, 10% of the cost is donated to the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Around the World in 80 Ways (www.lhw.com) takes in 12 cities over 28 days, cramming dozens of once-in-a-lifetime moments into one extraordinary holiday. As in Fogg's quest, the epic journey starts in London, with a suite at the Ritz and dinner in the hotel's restaurant. Ladies, don't worry if you can't decide what to wear: an original...
...want to see the world but prefer to be at sea, Silversea's all-suite, Grand Pacific 92-day odyssey (www.silversea.com) visits 45 ports, 15 countries and both hemispheres. The trip (which kicks off March 7, 2009, and costs upwards of $55,000) starts in Los Angeles and winds up in Vancouver, stopping along the way in Tokyo when the cherry blossoms are in bloom and Alaska as it emerges from winter...
Although married to a relative of Trajan, Hadrian openly loved a Greek youth, Antinous, who is known to have accompanied him on at least one lion-hunting trip. His relationship with this boy would have raised few eyebrows - the Roman élite embraced homoerotic culture and celebrated it in works of art. Hadrian's reaction to his death, however, was unprecedented. After Antinous drowned in the Nile in A.D. 130, Hadrian mourned him as if he were an Empress and encouraged cults to venerate the lowly youth. He surrounded himself with marble statues and busts of Antinous, at least...
...Barack Obama's first trip to the Middle East as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was a series of tests on how well he knows his way around the most delicate corners of U.S. foreign policy, his last day in the region, shuttling back and forth between the Israelis and the Palestinians, was a fitting final exam...