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The result of her 2½-year effort is a 515-page survey that covers a lot more than the standard data. She ventures into exotic territory like "Favorite Drugs," 'Most Popular Off-Campus Hangout" and "Best Party of the Year," then considers: Who are the best professors? How...
"The pictures used to seem exaggerations-they seemed too weird and fanciful for reality. But behold, they were not wild enough. They have not told half the story." So wrote Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad, carried away as he was by the exotic sights of Morocco in 1867. Whether...
It is one of nature's most coveted secrets, and over the centuries many have professed to know it. Aristotle had a surefire formula: make love in the north wind to conceive a male child and in the south wind for a girl. Hippocrates had his own prescription-tie...
And there are many ways, besides a Cook's tour, to leave home. One cheap, popular alternative these days is the psychic holiday: the cosmos on $5 a day. The preferred mode of travel is drugs, the destination lotus land. Madness is exotic. True, it is no longer celebrated...
At least 7 million travelers participate in airline frequent-flyer programs in the hope of racking up enough mileage to earn free tickets to exotic locations. Yet roughly half of such customers fail to use the awards they receive. As a result, these coupons have become a hot new commodity...