Word: exoticism
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The food, though, isn't too exotic. It's mainly an abbreviated version of the typical New Jersey diner's seven-page layout. Its only foray into the international style is the Teriyaki tips with potatoes, salad and rice for $6.95.
What are they gawking at anyway? Are they surprised that we don't look somehow "different"? Are they trying to capture the essence of a Harvard student, an esoteric trait of creativity or dedication that marks those who attend this hallowed institution? There is the sense that we are something...
We have long speculated that if there are other warm, wet and cozy planets like ours, they might harbor carbon-based life like ours. Unfortunately, the vast majority of places out there are depressingly and forbiddingly unearthlike. We figured that life there, if at all possible, would probably come in...
Stories like Dorsett's have become increasingly common over the past several months. People are dropping 20 lbs. or more in a matter of weeks. And it's not through willpower or exotic diets or Olympian exercise routines, but largely because, for the first time in their lives, they have...
Fiercely resistant to authority, Williams spent nearly seven years in solitary confinement and turned to exotic self-help works, including a text on ancient Egyptian philosophy. "I slowly realized I was living a lie," he says. "The respect I cared so much about was based on intimidation, not self-respect...