Wine and beer are wonderful things, and America makes and drinks a huge amount of both. But we also send a good amount of our favorite beverages overseas.

Vinepair, a blog dedicated to making wine more accessible to a growing audience, put together a couple of maps showing who imported the most American beer and wine in 2013.

Here's their beer export map, with more info available in Vinepair's post on the map here:

According to Vinepair, the U.S. exported beer to 107 countries in 2013. Our North American neighbors dominate the list, with Mexico importing over 40 million gallons, and Canada drinking over 23 million gallons of American beer.

Here's their map for wine exports, with more info available on Vinepair here:

According to Vinepair, the U.S. sent wine to 125 countries. The UK loves American wine, importing over twice as much as any other country. 

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While I was sitting in New York City's renowned Gotham Bar and Grill the other day, waiting to speak to executive chef and partner Alfred Portale, something peculiar happened.

Under the formal setting of high ceilings, cultivated art, and dramatic chandeliers, a middle-aged woman in her pajamas walked in.

"I'm your neighbor," she told the hostess. "I locked myself out of my apartment and the only way I can get back in is if I climb over your fence."

Bret Csencsitz, the general manager, glided to the front of the restaurant. "Are you locked out again?" he asked, and then escorted the woman to the back where, presumably, he helped her jump Gotham's backyard fence.

The whole situation struck me as straight out of a sitcom: The manager took it completely in stride, and didn't blink an eye at the rather strange predicament. 

And that's why, after 30 years of serving high-end cuisine in New York's Greenwich Village, Gotham Bar and Grill is still such a classic. When I finally sat down with Portale, who has helmed the kitchen at Gotham for 29 of its 30 years, he stressed that one of the most important elements of the New York Times 3-star restaurant's success is its service, perhaps even more than the food.

"People will forgive an overcooked meal, or maybe a wait for food or something underseasoned, but they will never forget bad service, rude service, inattentive service," he said. "We have a very democratic door policy. We remember our regulars. We have a whole database on people’s birthdays, their likes and their dislikes. Rather than just offer a customer champagne when they come in, we have notes that say he doesn’t like champagne and only drinks vodka."But that doesn't mean food comes second for Portale, who was named Outstanding Chef by the James Beard Foundation in 2006. He thinks constant innovation and improvement on the restaurant's menu has helped Gotham thrive.

"We are continually asking ourselves on a daily, weekly basis thinking about how can we improve the restaurant, how can we improve things for the employees, the guests, the physical space, the service," he said.

Picky customers help keep the restaurants on its toes.

"The New York guests are a lot better informed than they ever were," Portale said. "They're better educated, they’re more demanding, more enthusiastic. They want to know where the food is from and how it’s prepared and that wasn’t necessarily the case 30 years ago, and that’s a big change for us."Portale recalled one of the biggest food trends over the years — "tall food" or "architecture food" — which he unwittingly helped create in the 1990s when he started playing with dimension on the plate, stacking fish and making salads stand vertically. But once critics coined the buzzword, he stepped back from it.

"It was all wonderful and beautiful until I became the inventor of it, and it swept all across the country. Once it became a trend, I moved away from it," said Portale. "I mean I was very proud, and always proud of the food until people started putting so much importance on the presentation, that’s what made me nervous."But since Portale has been at Gotham, he has never feared that it would succumb to the New York City restaurant "curse" — some 80% of restaurants that open in the Big Apple close within five years. One thing that distinguishes Gotham from other upscale, French restaurants is that it actively blogs and tweets, Portale said. 

"Our crowd is getting younger, which is a good thing for a restaurant of our age," he said. "A lot of older French restaurants basically die because all their customers grow old and wither away. But we have such an active social media presence we work on our social media every single day."While the restaurant has never expanded beyond its Greenwich Village home, Portale said he hopes to see Gotham expand in the future. "We're trying to maybe expand the brand a little bit," he said. We looked at some opportunities in Washington and some other cities."

"Certainly we are going to continue to do what we’ve done," he adds. "I don’t mean the same thing, I mean continue to find new challenges and new direction for the restaurant."

Good news for its neighbor.

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One year after its launch, the Emirati royal family's Azzam retains its crown as the world largest superyacht.

At 590 feet in length, the German-built Azzam is actually twenty three feet longer than a U.S. Navy missile cruiser. 

How does Azzam stack up against the competition? Here are the 22 largest yachts in the world, according to Superyacht Times.

22. Roman Abramovich's "Luna" — 377.3 feet long (2010)

21. Roman Abramovich's "Pelorus" — 377.3 feet long (2003)

20. Saudi Royal Family's "Issham Al Baher" — 379.79 feet long (1973)

We hope you already keep things like Q-tips, soap, and a toothbrush stocked in your bathroom, but it's amazing what a difference a few upgrades can make in your grooming regimen. 

Here are the 25 items we keep in our well-stocked medicine cabinet. Take your pick.

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The top of the U.S. luxury market has been on a tear. 

Last month, a Greenwich, Conn. estate sold for $120 million, making it one of the most expensive residential properties ever sold in the U.S. 

Then over the weekend, that record was smashed by the sale of a $147 million compound on Further Lane in East Hampton to hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein.

See how all these recent sales stack up.

#11 The penthouse of New York's (unfinished) One57 skyscraper sold for $90 million.

The penthouse at the top of the under-construction One57 sold in May of 2012, reportedly to a group led by hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman. The still-to-be-completed pad sounds incredible, with almost 11,000 square feet, over two floors and access to the building’s amenities, including a 65-foot pool with Central Park views, a library, theater, and gym.

Photo: Courtesy of Extell Development Company

#10 A historic Bel Air estate was scooped up for $94 million.

Way back in 2000, financier Gary Winnick bought this gorgeous 1930s mansion from tycoon David Murdoch for $94 million (around $129 million today). Winnick had previously purchased the estate in 1979 for $12.4 million. The main house is over 28,000 square feet, with seven bedrooms, a 15-car garage, full-sized basketball court, and a putting green.

Though the home is technically off the market, it’s rumored to be quietly for sale for $225 million.

Photo: Calisphere via UC Libraries

#9 Donald Trump's Palm Beach Estate sold for $95 million.

Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev scooped up Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate in 2008. The 69,000-square-foot home has a 50-car garage and 475 feet of oceanfront property. It is rumored that Rybolovlev has plans to level the home and rebuild despite having only entered the property a few times since his purchase.

Men care about their wedding bands, too.

That's why California-based machinist and designer Jess McWhinney created a collection of rings for men that he calls "Active Wedding Rings for Active Men."

McWhinney, who has a background in bicycle and skateboard design, created a line of titanium and stainless steel wedding bands that have a watch-like clamp that makes it easier to take on and off.

"Why do women wear their wedding rings, but men don't?" McWhinney asked Fast Co. Design. "It's not just because men want to be slutty, although that happens. It's usually because it doesn't fit well, it's uncomfortable, or it interferes with work or play."

According to Fast Co., men tend to buy rings on the bigger side in order to fit them over their knuckles. And for $825 to $3,750 "Active" bands solves that problem in style.

"Its always been a pet peeve of mine that the woman always gets the cool, valuable ring, while the guy gets the afterthought, boring metal band," McWhinney told Fast Co. "But guys don't want a blingy diamond on their ring. It's just not our thing. What we do want is something that is functional, well made and kinda trick, so we can show it off to our buddies."

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The Met Gala — also known as The Met Ball, Fashion Prom, or this year, Cinco de Met Ball — is underway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The annual fundraiser benefits the Met's Costume Institute and serves as an opening celebration for their annual fashion exhibit — this year featuring designer Charles James in a new show titled "Beyond Fashion." 

Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief and chair of the event since 1995, oversees both the benefit committee and the star-studded guest list.

Everyone from Sarah Jessica Parker to Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner made Wintour's list this year.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, chair of the event since 1995, arrived in a Chanel Haute Couture gown.

Anna followed as her daughter, Bee Shaffer, hit the red carpet in Alexander McQueen.

Sarah Jessica Parker was the first to arrive, accompanied by her date, Bravo network's Andy Cohen.

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A park bench may be a better option than staying at the $40/night Vigilant Hotel in Chelsea.

I walked through the crimson doors of the century-old New York City flophouse and rented a room to see if stories of bedbugs and other horrors were true. After a colleague chasing the same story was kicked out of the hotel for taking pictures, I did my best to blend in.

I wore a cheap t-shirt and a dirty fleece from the Salvation Army which I had smeared with cigarette ash and crumbs from a bag of Doritos. I hadn't shaved in a week.

Checking in

Behind the first crimson door is a second crimson door, with paper signs stating the rules of the hotel: NO DOUBLES, NO COUPLES, MEN ONLY, etc. Another sign warns of 24-hour closed circuit surveillance. Behind this door is a narrow two-floor stairway and a warm smell of body odor.

On the second floor, there's a big room with a bunch of covered cubicles in the middle.

I followed a sign to the end of a hall, where behind a metal grate I saw a shirtless man with a big belly, white chest hair, and a collar of white shoulder hair.

"Is it $40 for a room?" I asked.

"It's 120 for the week," the manager said.

"I just need a room for the night."

The manager took my ID and $40 for the night plus a $5 key deposit. He didn't ask what I was doing there. Either my disguise had fooled him or this just wasn't the type of place where you ask questions.

As he took my money, he warned me I was in for a long night.

"You know there's no ceiling? You'll hear people next to you. You won't be able to sleep."

He told me where to find the bathroom and the shower. I could smoke in the room, but I had better use the ashtray. There was a deli downstairs and I could come and go as I pleased, but I should keep the door to my room locked.

Finally he mentioned the bedbugs. He came out of the door with a big spray bottle with "BUGS" written on the side in marker. "Spray it if you see a bug. You can spray it on yourself, your clothes, your bed." He sprayed it on his hands to demonstrate.

Room 108 is an 8x8x4-foot box topped by a grid of wooden slats.

The bed is a foam mattress wrapped in plastic on a wooden ledge, covered by an old but washed floral sheet. A wooden plank serves as a shelf. There is a light that makes a loud hum and an outlet on the wall.

The smell wasn't too bad and there was no immediate evidence of bugs.

When I went upstairs and stopped to take a picture out an open window, I heard the owner shouting my name. I looked down and saw that his office had a window overlooking the stairs. He said: "The shower is right there and otherwise there's no reason to be prowling around upstairs. People come here to sleep, and you've got a nice room down there and no reason to go upstairs unless you're looking to burglar something."

The people who live there

The Vigilant is a single-room occupancy that is listed by city organizations as a resource for homeless people. Some looked like they had jobs, others looked liked they did not have much.

A black man carried a bike to the third floor. A Hispanic man in a button-down shirt made conversation with the manager. One of the residents helped the manager check email and afterward said "All right, Michael, have a good night. Thanks for everything."

An old black man in a towel walked barefoot upstairs to the shower. Unseen others made noises, caughing, listening to the radio, and moving in their rooms.

A large black man in a cracking leather jacket walked down the stairs one booming step at a time. I followed him to the deli next door where he stood by the counter until all the other customers had gone.

"Coffee," the man muttered.

"What?" the deli worker asked.

"Coffee."

The deli worker looked uncomfortable for a moment and then poured the man a coffee and asked "milk or sugar?"

"Marlboro," the man muttered.

At this point another deli worker came over and said, "Hey, is he going to pay for that?"

As the man walked past me on the way back into the Vigilant, I asked how long he had lived here. "Three, four years," he said with half a smile plastered on his face.

I went back to the deli later and asked about him.

"He's messed up in the head. He lives upstairs," the deli worker said. "The Vigilant is a bad place. Full of people with mental problems. The city pays for them to live there on the fourth floor. The rest pay rent."

"It's a bad place. Bed bugs, small rooms, like that bathroom, but smaller. They used to come in with their bedbugs and cause lots of problems for us. You'd see the bedbugs on them." The deli worker gestured to his chest and shoulders. Used to? "Yeah I think they've fixed it or something. It's a bad place. I would never stay there. Even if I were homeless I wouldn't live there. It's like paying for jail."

Going to sleep

The idea was to sleep sitting crosslegged. Having heard that the bug spray didn't work, I had brought a travel container of Purell and figured what the heck. I squeezed the hand sanitizer in a circle around me as if in a strange black magic incantation.

But sleeping sitting up is uncomfortable, plus I figured the point of the story was to lie down and fall asleep in the bed, so I lay down.

I woke to a prick on my neck. I slapped and checked my hand and found a squished bedbug.

I got up and took off my fleece and felt my neck and arms and hips for bugs. It was 3:30 and I wasn't going back to sleep.

Locking the door behind me I walked down the hall to the office. The manager was sleeping in his chair. He stirred at the sound of my keys. I would have taken a picture but I was afraid his eyes would open and he would be furious.

I took a taxi back to Brooklyn and removed my contaminated clothes before entering my apartment.

There are few options for people who have nothing in New York. For those who can afford it, Vigilant Hotel is a viable option. You get a bed, a semi-private room and a not-unfriendly community. But if you can't handle the bedbugs, then you may be better off on the street.

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Not all of us paid attention in high school English class, but that doesn't mean the assigned books weren't worth reading (or re-reading).

And maybe it's finally time to enjoy "The Grapes of Wrath" and other classics, instead of just the CliffsNotes version.

Miriam Tuliao, assistant director of central collection development at the New York Public Library, helped us create a list of 25 American classics everyone should read.

From John Steinbeck's masterpiece to Jack Kerouac's "On The Road," these 25 titles are worth your time (listed here in alphabetical order).

Do you think another book belongs on this list? Let us know in the comments.

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Published in 1943

"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the heartwarming coming-of-age story of the young and idealistic Francie Nolan as she grows up in the slums of Williamsburg during the early 20th century.

An avid reader and lover of penny candy, Francie is a sweet and lovable narrator who must also face the horrors of life — battling sexual assault, extreme loneliness, and lost love — in an effort to survive (and prosper) despite her environment.

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"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain

Published in 1884

Considered to be one of the great American novels, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" follows Huck Finn and his friend Tom Sawyer as they travel along the Mississippi River and through the 19th century antebellum South with a freed slave named Jim.

It was the first book written in vernacular English, and though it's frequently challenged for use in the U.S. public school system's curriculum due to racial stereotypes and frequent slurs, many modern academics argue the book is an attack on racism.

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"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand

Published in 1957

The lengthy "Atlas Shrugged" is set in a fictional dystopian United States where all the world's movers and shakers have abandoned society, leaving the world and the remaining people in a state of flux. 

No matter your opinion on the underlying concept of the book — that capitalism is goodness itself — Ayn Rand's philosophical book is considered by many to be her magnum opus and one need not agree with her to appreciate it.

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Looking at social media activity in a densely populated area like New York City can reveal a lot about the people who live there.

A new set of maps from the DOLLY Project at the University of Kentucky uses geotagged tweets to demonstrate where members of certain social groups are concentrated around the city. 

The first map compared tweets that referenced hipsters with those that mentioned bro culture. 

"Although mortal enemies in the wild, we wanted to see whether domestication (via urbanization and Twitter) might cause these archetypes to adapt different grazing patterns," DOLLY analysts wrote in a blog post.

The study was conducted on tweets that were posted between June 2012 and March 2014, and the data was normalized to prevent particularly active Twitter users from skewing the results. 

In that time period, there were 12,319 tweets with "hipster" references, represented by the darker areas on the map below. In a not-very-surprising conclusion, they found that hipsters were more concentrated in the gentrifying areas of Brooklyn like Williamsburg and DUMBO, as well as in Manhattan's SoHo and NoHo neighborhoods. 

Tweets mentioning bros, on the other hand, were much more common — 239,412 tweets referencing the college-aged, partying male demographic — and generally seemed to be located in a belt around Manhattan. Bros are represented by the lighter-colored hexagons on the map. 

The DOLLY project also created a map comparing tweets from NYC bankers and artists. 

Bankers, represented by the dark hexagons in the map below, tweeted most often from the Financial District and the residential Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods. Interestingly enough, they also tweeted from the area's airports fairly often. 

Artists seemed to be distributed in several different areas around the city, especially Brooklyn, Queens, and upper Manhattan. 

"These two examples illustrate how using more context-appropriate methods for aggregating and visualizing geotagged social media data can provide meaningful (or at least interesting!) insight into the spatial distribution of cultural-economic identities in the city," the analysts wrote. 

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Brunei — the tiny, wealthy nation on the island of Borneo — officially implemented a strict form of Islamic law known as Shariah last week.

The new code includes harsh penalties like amputation and stoning for offenses like theft and gay sex. The law went into effect May 1, with even more draconian punishments being phased in over the next two years.

International human rights groups decried the change, with Amnesty International saying it will "take the country back to the dark ages when it comes to human rights." 

The kingdom of about 415,000 had already functioned under a conservative set of Muslim laws. According to CNN, it is the first country in East Asia to embrace the even stricter code of Shariah law, which is widely used in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and a handful of other Middle Eastern and North African countries.

The punishments for various criminal and moral violations will become increasingly severe, according to Reuters:

[Right after the law was enacted], residents of the country dominated by Malay Muslims face conviction by Islamic courts and fines or jail terms for offenses like pregnancy outside marriage, failure to perform Friday prayers, and propagating other religions.

A second phase comes into effect 12 months later covering offences for theft and alcohol consumption by Muslims, punishable by whipping and amputations.

The death penalty, including by stoning, will be introduced in the final phase a year later for offences including adultery, sodomy and insulting the Koran or the Prophet Muhammad.

Most of the new laws will also apply to non-Muslims, who make up about one-third of the population.

Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah is one of the wealthiest men in the world, thanks to the nation's massive oil reserves. He is also the owner of Los Angeles' Beverly Hills Hotel, which is facing boycotts from celebrities and Hollywood groups over Brunei's new laws.

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125 years ago today, the Eiffel Tower was officially opened to the public in Paris after 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days of construction.

It stood as the gateway for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in honor of the 100th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, and continues to make an impact on the world’s conscious today.

In honor of the famous world attraction’s official opening anniversary, here are 13 cool facts about the Eiffel Tower everyone should know.

1. The Eiffel Tower wasn’t the brainchild of Gustav Eiffel. Instead, his senior engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier designed the building. Gustav Eiffel wasn't overly interested in the project, but sent the engineers to the head of the company’s architectural department, Stephen Sauvestre. With Sauvestre's edits, Eiffel got behind the final plans and bought the right to the patent.

2. The Eiffel Tower in numbers: 300 workers, 18,038 pieces of wrought iron, 2.5 million rivets, 10,000 tons, 984.25 feet high.

3. The tower was built as a symbol of modern science, or as Eiffel himself said, “not only the art of the modern engineer, but also the century of Industry and Science in which we are living.” At the time that the tower was being built, another technology was also in its infancy phase — photography. As the tower was built, many photographers captured series of photographs to show the tower’s construction.

4. At the time of its construction, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest building in the world. It wasn't until 1930 when New York City’s Chrysler Building rose up to 1,046 feet that the tower lost that title.

5. The Eiffel Tower's elevators weren't operational at first. On May 6, fair goers were allowed to enter the tower, but the 30,000 visitors had to climb 1,710 steps to reach the top. The lifts finally entered service on May 26.

6. Parisian residents originally hated the Eiffel Tower, calling it an eyesore. Newspapers received angry letters that said the tower didn’t fit into the feel of the city, and there was a team of artists that rejected the plan from the get-go. One apocryphal story says that novelist Guy de Maupassant said he hated the tower, but ate at its restaurant every day for lunch. When he was asked why, Maupassant replied it was only place in Paris he couldn’t see it.

7. It changes height by the season. Because it’s made with puddled (wrought) iron, the tower’s metal expands when exposed to the summer sun, causing the structure to rise by as much as 6.75 inches.

8. The Eiffel Tower was only meant to stand for 20 years, but the French military and government began using it for radio communication and later telecommunication. When the permit expired in 1909, the City of Paris decided to keep it.

9. The Eiffel Tower has stood up to quite a lot during its lifetime. It transmitted radio signals during WWI, and during WWII the elevator wires were cut so that the Nazis could not use the tower (after Allied troops entered the city, the elevators were fixed). It even survived a fire on its top floor, and over 250 million visitors from around the world climbing on it.

10. The tower is not painted one uniform color. To counteract atmospheric perspective, the tower is painted darker at the top and becomes gradually lighter towards the bottom.

11. Speaking of paint, every seven years 50 to 60 tons of paint are applied to protect the tower from rust.

12. It’s not just a tourist attraction. The Eiffel Tower has housed a newspaper office, post office, scientific laboratories, a theater, and the first level becomes an ice rink every year.

13.It is the most visited paid monument in the world, attracting almost 7 million visitors every year (75% of whom are from other countries). Here’s the full breakdown:

For more cool facts on the Eiffel Tower, visit the monuments website here.

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Grace Choi was at Harvard Business School when she decided to disrupt the beauty industry. She did a little research and realized that beauty brands create and then majorly mark up their products by mixing lots of colors.

"The makeup industry makes a whole lot of money on a whole lot of bulls---," Choi said at TechCrunch Disrupt this week. "They charge a huge premium on something that tech provides for free. That one thing is color."

By that, she means color printers are available to everyone, and the ink they have is the same as the ink that makeup companies use in their products. She says the ink is FDA-approved.

Choi created her own mini home 3D printer, Mink, that will retail for $300 and allow anyone to print makeup by ripping the color code off color photos on the internet. It hooks up to a computer, just like a normal printer.

She demonstrated how it works, then brushed some of the freshly printed makeup onto her hand. She answered a lot of the tough questions about how she'll move beyond powders to creamier products and team up with traditional printing companies in the video below.

Here's how Mink, Choi's makeup-printing machine, works.

This is the Mink printer. It uses regular printer ink.

First, find a color you want to print. Choi says her machine will print creamy lipsticks or powdery eye shadows.

Use the color picker to copy the hex code of the color you've chosen. In this demo, Choi chose pink.

Using Photoshop or Microsoft Paint, paste the hex code into a new document. You'll see the color you want to print pop up.

Print the color just as you'd print any other document on your computer.

Here's Choi printing the pink eye shadow.

This is what the finished product looks like. It comes in a little Mink-provided container that looks just like eye shadow.

Choi dips a makeup brush in the freshly printed powder to show it really is makeup.

Then she brushes the pink on her hand. "Mink enables the web to become the biggest beauty store in the world," says Choi. "We’re going to live in a world where you can take a picture of your friend’s lipstick and print it out."

Now check out the video demo and listen to Choi answer tough questions about how she'll bring the printer to market below:

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Wealthy individuals looking to invest in real estate should check out Tel Aviv, Dublin, and Chicago.

Those are three of cities identified on a new list of "rising stars" for real estate investors from real estate developers Candy & Candy, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management and Savills.

The 12 cities on the list are set to "outperform the prime world cities and show strong residential price growth as they become more fully invested" in the next few years, and may offer lower-priced alternatives to "safe haven" cities like London and New York, the report writes.

Here's the list, from most expensive residential property to least. "Prime" real estate is at the top-tier of the market, in the most desirable neighborhoods; "Secondary" real estate is the bulk of the residential market — mainstream properties in ordinary neighborhoods.

And a map showing where those cities are located:

According to the report, real estate is becoming an increasingly mainstream asset class for ultra-wealthy investors. Investors from markets – Germany, Japan and the United States – account for 39% of global real estate holdings by ultra-high-net-worth individuals (those with assets of $30 million or more).

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There are many ways to get rich. You can work on Wall Street or launch the next big tech startup.

But one time-honored path to wealth is to marry into money. To make that a little easier for New Yorkers, we found the best neighborhoods in Manhattan for finding single millionaires.

Marketing intelligence service WealthEngine provided us with data on unmarried Manhattanites with net worth of at least $1,000,000. 

It's a little easier to find a wealthy bachelor than a bachelorette: WealthEngine's data set of single millionaires had 2,967 men, but only 1,822 women.

We made maps of Manhattan, broken down by ZIP code, showing which areas had the most millionaire singles. Unsurprisingly, parts of Chelsea and Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side are good places to go to find wealthy bachelors and bachelorettes.

Here are the millionaire men:

And here are the millionaire women:

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With a lime shortage going on and summer fast approaching, people are turning to tiki drinks to sip on this season.

But none more so than the sweet, creamy, rum-based favorite, the Piña Colada.

“I think the rise in popularity goes back to the ‘everything old is new again’ discovery phase we are in right now with the millennial audience,” Andrew Freeman, founder of the hospitality consulting agency Andrew Freeman & Co, explained to Business Insider in an email. “There are so many classic items that are being re-introduced in modern ways for a crowd of people that never knew them before. Couple this with the rise of island food, fresh fruits and vegetables being used in cocktails, and the Piña Colada is the perfect drink.”

Three Puerto Rican bartenders claim ownership of the Piña Colada, which happens to be Puerto Rico’s national beverage. The most famous version of the story credits the drink to bartender Ramon "Monchito" Marrero of the Caribe Hilton back in 1954. According to the hotel, Monchito spent 3 months mixing, tasting, and discarding hundreds of combinations until he got the perfect blend.

Monchito made no secret of his original recipe, and today the Caribe Hilton features it proudly on its website: "Pour 2 ounces of light rum, 1 ounce of coconut cream, 1 ounce of heavy cream, and 6 ounces of fresh pineapple into a blender. Add ice. Blend for 15 seconds. Pour into a 12-ounce glass. Add a pineapple wedge and maraschino cherry for garnish."

This is a perfectly acceptable way to make a Piña Colada. Some would even say it’s the best way.

But there's a twist on the original recipe that takes the Piña Colada to the next level. Called the Rocket Fuel and invented by the bartenders of Fire Island, it's a liquored-up version made with Bacardi 151 floater and Amaretto.

The Island Mermaid, a Fire Island staple that has been around for 24 years, shared its own delicious recipe for making the island favorite, which owner Scott Hirsch warns can “sneak up on you.”

Here is the Island Mermaid’s seriously awesome take on the drink, courtesy of Hirsch:

Instead of mixing all the ingredients in the blender, we make the Piña Colada freshly with gold rum (not silver because it affects the flavor). You pour the gold rum over the ice in the blender and add the Piña Colada mix until the ice barely rises. Then blend.

Listen for the ice to disappear. Seriously, listen. It matters a little.

In the glass you are using, pour a shot of 151 rum. Then take the blended colada and pour it over the shot so it runs up through the drink. We recommend a 12-14 ounce pour. Then, gently circle the top of the drink with a floater of amaretto. The first sips are "sweet" getting you ready for the blast down below!  

That's it. Garnish with a slice of pineapple. Blast off.

Whether you prefer your Piña Colada classic or with a serious kick, expect to see a lot more of these tiki drinks this summer.

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On Tuesday, Intel announced that the new crop of Google Chromebooks arriving this summer will be built with something called "conflict-free" chips.

This means that the Intel computer chips that power the device won't use materials that came from slave labor.

You've probably heard of Blood Diamonds, diamonds that come from war-torn areas in Africa and mines run by warlords known for horrific human rights abuses.

But did you know that many of the consumer electronic devices you own also include materials that come from mines run by such warlords?

Consumer devices are all made with minerals like gold, tantalum, tin, and tungsten that come from mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This area of the Congo is described by one anti-slave group as "the deadliest spot in the poorest continent on earth."

We don't need to describe the type of abuses that go on in these mines. We'll just say that they involving capturing people, including children, forcing them to work in the mines and subjecting them to all sorts of horrors.

Instead of yanking money from the country and buying minerals from another region, Intel has been working with mines in the Congo that do not use slave labor practices. The effort has taken years, but the company is finally producing chips made with 100% conflict-free minerals.

"People should have a conflict-free choice," said Navin Shenoy, vice president and general manager of Intel Mobile Client Platforms Group said during a press conference with Google to announce the new Chromebooks.

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Whether through money, talent, or just good publicity, certain families dominate American life. 

There are legendary old money dynasties, twentieth century industrial dynasties, entertainment and sports dynasties, and political dynasties that hold a surprising amount of power for a democratic country.

We picked out today's most impressive American dynasties and ranked them, considering historical legacy, current influence, and estimated wealth.

23. The Trump-Kushner Family

Real estate royalty

One of the most powerful real estate tycoons today, Donald Trump started his career as real estate investor and developer at his father’s company. While he battled bankruptcy and SEC charges in the ‘90s, Trump has re-established himself as a successful businessman, and today is probably best known for his reality show, "The Apprentice." 

Trump’s daughter Ivanka is proving to be just as shrewd in business. She acquired The Doral Resort and its Blue Monster golf course in Miami for $150 million, according to Forbes, and is planning to spend $200 million renovating it. She also has a successful jewelry, fragrance, and shoe line.

Ivanka's husband, businessman Jared Kushner, runs his family's real estate development firm, Kushner Properties; is the founder of investment fund Thrive Capital; and owns The New York Observer, which he bought in 2006 for $10 million. 

Two-year-old Arabella Kushner and six-month-old Joseph Kushner, Ivanka and Jared's kids, have quite the empire to inherit: Donald Trump has an estimated net worth of $3.9 billion, while Ivanka is reportedly worth $150 million. Jared's net worth is around $200 million.

22. The Barrymore Family

Film and stage legends

Dubbed "Hollywood's first family," the Barrymores span the entertainment industry from screen to stage since before the American Revolutionary War. The family started with Maurice Barrymore — his stage name — who gave birth to actors Lionel, Ethel, and John Barrymore.

John, also known as "The Great Profile" for his aristocratic good looks, was the most acclaimed actor of the early 20th century. John's second wife, Dolores Costello, was also a well-known silent film actress. The two gave birth to John Drew Barrymore who, when his parents divorced, rebelled against his mother's wishes to keep him out of the limelight by signing his first acting contract at age 17.

John Drew's daughter, Drew, the youngest and best-known of the Barrymores, has been acting since the age of three. She's the goddaughter of director Steven Spielberg, who directed the movie in which she had her breakout role, "E.T." Drew went on to star in "Riding in Cars With Boys," "Charlie's Angels," and "The Wedding Singer." Drew, whose net worth alone is an estimated $125 million, gave birth to her first child in 2012 and had her second just last month.

21. The Ford Family

Auto tycoons

Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903, and the Fords have been the first family in American automobiles ever since. His only son, Edsel, took over the company in 1919 at the age of 26 and is credited with the sleek designs that made the brand so popular. 

Edsel's son Henry II took the reigns of Ford Motor Company in 1943 at the age of 25, and he really revived the company after WWII. His brothers held high and powerful positions under him.

Today, the family is still involved in the company: Henry II's son, Edsel II, still sits on the company's board of directors, his granddaughter Elena is a vice president at the company, and William Jr. (a grandson of Edsel Ford) was the Chairman and CEO until 2006 and still remains Executive Chairman at the company.

Today the descendants of Henry Ford control the Ford Motor Company, although they have a minority ownership of 2%. Based on a market cap of $48 billion, the Ford family holds $1.2 billion worth of common stock.