Word: exoticism
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Endangered species, a significant portion of the contraband smuggled into Taiwan, appeal to rich consumers there for a number of reasons. Environmentalism is a new and alien concept; Chinese society tends to emphasize the utility of animals. Exotic pets are status symbols, while pelts are hung in the homes of...
But this semester, Range's career has led him to a slightly less exotic milieu--Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP), where he is one of six visiting fellows.
Foreign correspondent Peter Ross Range's career has taken him many exotic places--Europe Japan and Vietnam, to name a few.
And his personal love of travel has taken him to even more exotic places: while in college, he "hitchhiked" from Germany to India on an overseas trip that included a voyage to Kuwait aboard a Norweigan tanker.
In Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (HarperCollins; $25), Dennis Overbye has discovered a fiendishly clever way of tricking readers into understanding cosmology, the study of the entire universe. Instead of focusing on the nuts and bolts -- exotic particles, black-body radiation and the like -- Overbye draws intimate portraits of such...