The list of rich men obsessed with space exploration is as long as an Apollo rocket.

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Many men become obsessed with "Shanghai roses" even before they set foot in the city, held fast by the imaginary fragrance of the flowers and their enchantingly suggestive intimacy.

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" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.

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And the girls, three of them university students, are so silly: dreaming non-stop of love and marriage, practising astrology, obsessed by the men they never, or hardly ever, are allowed to see but with whom they chirp like crickets throughout the night on their mobile phones.

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Are handsome men doomed to become skin-care-obsessed dullards simply because no one talks to them about serious things?

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But 80% of stalkers are men and a lot of those do become dangerously obsessed, and it can be very scary, especially for young women.

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We never think to ask why a nineteen-year-old boy is so obsessed with a horse, or why the entire production is devoted to an animal, while ten million men are dying all around him.

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