Word: exoticism
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By the end of the year, well over 10 million people will have traveled to America's national parks to see the few tiny patches of land that are still as pristine as they were before Columbus landed, or so most believe. In fact, the National Park Service is coping...
Here at the annual SIGGRAPH computer-graphics show in Dallas, I'm having my first hands-on encounter with the technological phenomenon known variously as cyberspace, artificial reality or, in a phrase borrowed from computerese, virtual reality. It relies on the techniques of interactive computer graphics to create the illusion...
Two veterans of that rogues' gallery, Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, have survived attempts at what is known in spookspeak as "termination with extreme prejudice." In the early 1960s the CIA concocted exotic poisons and hired Mafia hit men in a bizarre and feckless murder plot against the Cuban leader...
The plan's proponents point out that only 3.2 of the forest's 10,930 hectares (eight of 27,000 acres) have been bulldozed so far, in preparation for installing a 25-MW, 12-well plant (only one well has been drilled). Even the most grandiose plan, which would generate...
As a boy, I always had an unusual fascination with the radio. I would sit for hours listening to static, trying to tune in distant stations on my small AM radio. The results were seldom thrilling. On a typical night I could hear stations from exotic places like Philadelphia and...