Word: alienating
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Reformation and reconstruction of an alien culture are a daunting task. Risky and, yes, arrogant. Which is why there is no great desire in America to undertake such a mission. Before 9/11, no one would have seriously even proposed it. After 9/11, we dare not shrink from it. America is coming ashore...
After the Battle of Dunkirk, though, he was interned as an enemy alien and shipped to Australia...
Fenster was recruited as part of the Oxford Student’s endeavor to add a different perspective to their op-ed pages. What, after all, could be more alien than an American? The editors of Oxford’s campus weekly solicited The Crimson for a columnist and Fenster, who is a familiar face among the ranks of The Crimson op-ed team, volunteered. He soon found himself in an enviable situation—an ocean separates himself from the scrutiny of his editors and a weekly allotment of 400 words is his to use on whatever topic...
...forty years since, changes have been made to accommodate various congressional interests and a few paranoid visions of hurtling asteroids and/or vicious alien invaders. Today's NASA is charged with expanding "commercial" potential in the heavens, as well as with "protecting the Earth." Recent shuttle missions, including Columbia's, involved various research projects, including one on the effects of zero-gravity on ant colonies...
...China in the 21st century, this is known as a sunny day. At an outdoor marketplace, a teeming tenement of narrow stalls and alleys, clamoring vendors peddle knockoff Rolex watches and Nike sneakers, pirated videos, severed ducks' heads and trussed pink pigs. Into this tumult strides a 2.13-meter alien from the imperial courts of the U.S. But he is no tourist...