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Money-No-Object Summer Camps - Forbes.com

Try studying the AIDS crisis from the hospital beds of Third World countries, spending 40 hours a week honing your acting skills or strolling Rome’s cobblestoned streets with new-found friends.Of course, this kind of adventurous and in-depth experiential learning comes with a hefty price tag; tuition at some super-luxe camps ranges from $1,300 to $2,200 a week. But while many camps house campers in plush dorms and offer stays at four-star hotels, those in the camp industry say these programs are as committed to traditional values as they are to their specialized curricula and facilities.

While roughing it for a while might do wonders for the brats’ manners, there are probably some elite boot camps with marine drill sergeants for that.

As we in the Northeast enjoy the first warm day since… since… never mind. We know the drawbacks of living here. High taxes, small living spaces, cold weather and cold people. Which is why it isn’t much of a surprise that many of us end up moving out West. Even the largest and most luxurious properties look undervalued by comparison.

Still, we’re not going to just pack up and move anywhere. There’s got to be something worth going to. Golf, for example. The TPC Scottsdale was designed as the stage for the FBR Open — the largest spectator event on the PGA TOUR. Or the weather. On average, the temperature reaches freezing only five days per year. Sure, the summers can be hot - but doesn’t it make more sense to spend 8 months in Scottsdale and escape the summer than to try to escape the New York winter for a couple of weeks?
Whether to move out permanently, or even become a snow bird, discriminating buyers eventually discover Scottsdale Fine Properties:

Scottsdale Fine Properties is a diamond when it comes to real estate services. Owner and Designated Broker, Lesley Martinson and her team understand the fine art of managing transactions at the high end of the market. Their exclusive focus on the luxury home, investment, vacation and condominium segment, and delivering an extraordinary level of service, have earned them both success and a sparkling reputation nationwide.

Consider some of their feature properties: for the price of a 2-bedroom condo in Manhattan you can have 10,000 sq ft plus of luxurious living. The New York City apartment you could buy for $4 million would fit in this house’s closet.

So go ahead and look. We dare you. Sure, you’re just browsing. But the bug will get in your ear and… that’s figuratively speaking, of course. There are no bugs to speak of in Scottsdale.

So you just got back from the Baselworld watch and jewelry exhibition with your fancy new watch and those crazy TSA people confiscated your watchband. You need a replacement, and you can’t just run down to the corner drugstore. You need something with style. You need to go to Watchband.biz.
According to their site:

HIRSCH Artisanal leather watch bands are handcrafted - one by one, in a process consisting of more than 60 steps. Fine reptile leathers are punched, seams are sewn, varnish is carefully applied. The Classic Collection offers unique leather watch bracelets made in HIRSCH Rembordier Technology. All leather watchbands are Sauna-Tested and Water-Resistant. Some watch straps in the collection are even 100m Water-Resistant and are provided with the HIRSCH No Allergy System.

Sounds good to us. Besides, what better accoutrement for a Swiss watch than a German watchband?

In addition to the bands themselves, Watchband.biz sells related parts such as springbars, buckles and batteries. They also sell the tools you’ll need to open the thing. But that’s pretty much it. Watchband.biz is a biz that sells watchbands. If we still wore a watch and it needed a band, you know where we would go.

Hottest New Luxury Watches - Forbes.com

When the Baselworld 2007 watch and jewelry exhibition begins in Switzerland this week, close to 2,100 of the world’s top watch makers will display and debut their latest creations. A week later in Geneva, a second exhibition starts–the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie).

We wish we could be there. Even though we don’t use a watch anymore (cel phones, computers, clocks everywhere) we love looking at them.

World’s Most Decadent Cocktails - Forbes.com

A doctor from Spain recently spent time visiting friends in Belfast. For their hospitality, he treated them to one drink at the Bar at the posh Merchant Hotel.Cheap? Not exactly. It was a $1,400 Mai Tai, the most expensive cocktail in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

The only drink where the interest charges are worse than the hangover.