Word: exoticization
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Does America need 1,600 different varieties of frozen desserts? The answer to that weighty question is a resounding yes. Responding to an apparently insatiable consumer appetite for exotic frozen concoctions, U.S. food companies are producing a dazzling array of new products, from fruit bars and candy-coated ice cream...
Corporations fighting off takeover bids have devised sundry exotic defenses: concocting so-called poison pills of potential debt, filing protracted lawsuits or amassing the stock of would-be acquisitors. Lately a new strategy seems to be gaining favor: paying gobs of borrowed money to all stockholders, including unwelcome suitors, in...
NCSA, one of five regional supercomputer centers established since 1985 by the National Science Foundation, is rapidly emerging as a leader in scientific graphics. Last year, for instance, Artist Donna Cox and Computer Scientist Ray Idaszak helped Caltech Astrophysicist Charles Ross Evans produce a short videotape depicting what in theory...
From the time that Dutch Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity in 1911 until the recent rash of breakthroughs, there was only one way to produce the phenomenon: by bathing the appropriate metals -- and later, certain metallic alloys -- in liquid helium. This exotic substance is produced by lowering the temperature...
Even the meanest people, those who kick dogs, throw bottles at cats and step on robins' eggs, get teary-eyed and putty-legged when they see a panda rolling around on its ample posterior, twisting its puffy body into a seemingly impossible position, or eating an apple -- nothing more exotic...