Word: outerness
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...hardly the picture of primal terror: a 4- ft. 4-in., 62-lb. baby great white shark, circling the 1 million-gal. Outer Bay tank at California's Monterey Bay Aquarium. Her arrival in Monterey on Sept. 14 was a milestone. Though the world's aquariums are stocked with many of the other 386 species of shark, no one has successfully exhibited a great white for longer than 16 days. At least 37 have died in aquarium tanks during the past three decades. The most obvious problem has been that, once captured, the sharks refused to eat. They became disoriented...
...notably, by “sports” I do not mean to talk about that member of the women’s soccer team who’s in your Ec-10 section—orbiting ever so torturously on the outer rings of your “social net”—that you looked up that one time. Or fifty times...
...Having lived his entire life in the area, Latham now wears the westie tag with pride. After two decades of sustained economic growth and speculative residential building, places that were once farms, woodland and light-industrial sites have been transformed. "In my 25 years of political involvement in the outer suburbs," Latham wrote in From the Suburbs (2003), "there has only ever been one issue. How do we move the jobs and services to where the people have moved?" As well as hosting the poor, the suburban fringe is now becoming home to small-business people and the upwardly mobile...
...Blueboy, who at once dazzles his patrons and suffers humiliation at their hands, is clearly a symbol of the Philippines, simultaneously naive and calculating, seductive and repellent; but here Ong veers into the outer reaches of bad taste. The boy's first scene, at a sex club in a Manila slum, is disgusting in the extreme, even as it strains credulity...
...that break off from the mass as it approaches the sun. Over seven decades at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper, or Whipple shield, to protect spacecraft from high-speed particles. The device is still in use today...