REITs and other foreign exotica, welcome as they are, will seem rather beside the point.

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But these were not frequently traded exotica at all and would thus be entirely unaffected by an FTT.

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Then there is the kind of exotica that seldom appears elsewhere, from rare strains of apples to unusual meat.

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With The Seven Samurai and other feudal epics, Kurosawa was accused of peddling the samurai tradition as exotica for Westerners.

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Around the world, new breeds of automats are feeding demand for practical but surprising local staples as well as out-and-out exotica.

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And they just see it as a bit of exotica, I guess.

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The driver is Ken Schutze, over six feet of exotica restoration specialist from Missouri, whose expertise has helped form the DBR2 to Wa-el's exacting specifications.

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Lightly regulated and nearly opaque, hedge funds played a central role in the creation of credit-default swaps and other financial exotica that led to the economic collapse of 2008.

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While scientists gear up to use the Grid, the question remains whether beyond the search for such exotica as Higgs bosons, running vast protein-folding calculations or simulating the weather there is any real need for such massive computing.

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