That didn't affect the Perrys, but their neighbors at Marina Bay, Sally and Keith Huzyak, used the mortgage deduction to the max when they combined the mortgage on their primary home, a Lake Tahoe condo, and their 66-foot Pollycraft motor yacht, the Bes-ame ("kiss me" in Spanish).

FORBES: Home Fleet Home

West Africa is persistently volatile, as the latest dustups in the Ivory Coast and continuing mayhem in Congo show, but Nigeria rises above resource-rich neighbors in its potential to affect world commerce.

FORBES: Of Good Cheer? Think Nigeria