After a day of affluence on the water, take your sun-drenched skin to The Spa at Grove Isle.

BBC: Daily deal: One to five nights in Miami

Though the posher hotels had swimming pools, golf courses and nightclubs, this was a magnet for Jews of all classes, and many families and their friends returned to the same hotels or rooming houses year after year, until air conditioning, affluence and cheap air travel made alternatives available and brought the enchanted little world to an end.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

For 20 years after 1945, American Jews enjoyed what they recall as golden years of acceptance in society, impressive material affluence and a quite extraordinary cultural rayonnement.

ECONOMIST: History

After a surge in binge drinking during the mid-1990s, Western Europe has sobered up substantially as greater affluence, education and the professionalization of the work force have changed drinking patterns, according to Ben Baumberg, policy and research officer at the IAS who authored the European Commission's report.

FORBES: Europe's Biggest Drinkers