Word: mecca
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...Acker-mansion," on Glendower Road in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of L.A., became a museum and a shrine - Mecca for fan-fans. Show up on a Saturday morning, walk past the Lincoln Continental in the driveway (license plate: SCI FI) and find smiling Forry at the door. He leads a tour of his home, every inch of which is crammed and wallpapered with memorabilia: Bela Lugosi's ring and Dracula cape; Ray Harryhausen's miniature of a shattered U.S. Capitol dome from an entire room dedicated to the silent SF film Metropolis; artifacts and fetishes from...
...tragedies that have come before, at soccer stadiums, concerts and Ikea stores, which only makes it more awful. "We know exactly how crowds work," says G. Keith Still, a crowd management expert who has helped plan high-density events around the world, including the annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. There is, he says, no excuse for these kinds of accidents. "It's stupidity. It's ignorance. But the consequence is human life...
...faced fees as low as $5,000, as well as looser requirements for pre-surgery psychological counseling. Thailand is now a destination spot for all types of plastic surgery as well as a host of routine medical procedures. Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok is probably Thailand's best-known mecca for medical tourists, boasting patients from "over 190 countries" and an "International Patient Center" with interpreters and an airline ticket counter...
...There was a time in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, where there were 24 bookstores that brought people to Harvard Square from all over,” he says. “It was a Mecca for books...People would wander from one bookstore to another...
It’s 11:00 on a Friday night. At the party mecca known as Harvard University, where will you be spending your evening? If you’re a typical Harvard undergrad, there are three options: room parties, final clubs, and house parties. The first two are generally exclusive, requiring either an invite or a horde of scantily-clad freshman girls to gain entrance. You can always get into option three—House parties—provided you pay a fee. And who wouldn’t want to get down with a sweaty mass of questionable...