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But it has limited lodgings, which can be hard to book because of demand, explains Rod, sporting an Ole Miss pullover in the school's blue and red colors. They've fallen in love with Oxford, considered an anomaly in often hardscrabble rural Mississippi. 'To us, it's a big bubble,' Rod says. 'You feel protected from the rest of the world. You have Deep South charm without the hillbilly.'
'It's so laid-back, and everyone's nice,' Debbie, a well-groomed blonde, chimes in. 'Plus there's the history.'
Small-town ways, city chic
A 1 -hour drive south of Memphis, the city (whose population swells to nearly 33,000 when Ole Miss is in session) is a manicured oasis of culture and prosperity in Mississippi. Antebellum mansions, BMWs, sorority beauties toting $1,000 handbags and hip, locally owned boutiques, bookstores, bars and restaurants are as common as the kudzu vines and farmland that dot the surrounding countryside. You won't find a Starbucks or McDonald's in the center of town.
Oxford, named after the elite British university, is famed for the university's Center for the Study of Southern Culture and as the adopted home of late Nobel Prize-winning Faulkner, whose fictional Yoknapatawpha County is based on Oxford's Lafayette County (say 'La-FAY-ette,' as locals do)
You know, 'You're an A, I'm a B, wanna go out tonight?'
Dating services in Japan use blood type to make matches, employers use it to evaluate job candidates, and morning TV shows and newspapers there regularly feature blood type horoscopes. 'They use it like people here follow astrology,' confirms my colleague, Download.com Senior Associate Editor Seth Rosenblatt, who lived in Japan for three years. 'But of course its origins are in eugenics, which is much more sinister.'
The charm--which sells at Tokyo's Strapya World for about $6--looks like a mini IV blood bag with a letter (A, B, AB, or O) written on the exterior. Fortunately, the red fluid on the inside isn't the real thing.
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