Word: exoticized
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But she’s also been to more prosaic places in search of a story. “I’m not somebody who’s happiest when they’re at the gate at Logan,” she says. Instead, she likes to travel...
After writing about plants in her acclaimed book, The Orchid Thief, Orlean has moved on to animals, penning a piece on Keiko, the whale from Free Willy, for the New Yorker. She also interviewed a woman in New Jersey who kept close to 30 pet tigers. “People...
Thanks to relaxed Core requirements and administrators’ encouragement, the number of students thus marked rose sharply this year—93, according to a Sept. 17 Crimson article, compared to last year’s 51. This is, most of us agree, a positive trend. We all talk...
Game--it's what's for dinner. More and more two-legged carnivores who find themselves either bored with beef or concerned about healthy eating are turning to a herd of exotic meats. How about a medaillon of elk leg? Zebra steak? Or some rabbit saddles and quail satay?
Infectious diseases routinely leap from animals to humans, often with devastating effects. AIDS and Ebola originated in apes, Creutzfeldt-Jakob in cattle, West Nile in birds and SARS in a little-known animal called the palm civet. Last year the exotic-pet trade took a 3-lb. Gambian rat from...