Word: obsessional
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Predatory lenders are only part of the problem. Health-care and education costs have risen dramatically in the past few years, while the global price of cotton has become depressed, largely because of the billions of dollars in subsidies Washington hands out to U.S. farmers. "Expenses have increased, eating habits...
While many of us would rightly reject this caricature, we would not waste too much time doing so. Dwelling too long on the elaborate tapestry of social rules and symbols that would separate a country bumpkin from a blue blood at Harvard would betray an unhealthy obsession with status?...
In one of the final pieces he wrote for the New York Times before he died last October, celebrated reporter and U.S.-based gourmet R.W. Apple Jr. listed 10 restaurants worth boarding a plane to visit. When my editors at TIME recently asked for ideas for stories on food and...
In a world mercifully distant from Cambridge, an obsession with demography has taken hold: Religious conservatives are hysterically decrying the “creeping Islamization of Europe.” In right-wing magazines like the National Review, theological conservatives (theocons) foretell the end of European civilization due to the...
If you would like to know how to make nitroglycerine, properly hold a lobster fork, set up scams, form vast and intricate conspiracy plots, and travel to the depths of human depravity, then I suggest you read Chuck Palahniuk. The man who convinced the world that Fight Clubs existed has...