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DNA polymorphism exerts a fascination on a large scientific community.

Lost art exerts a fascination all of its own.

But the gloomy history of the darkest days of Chairman Mao's rule still exerts a fascination.

A vowed life, lived in community under a rule yet within the embrace of a major religion, exerts a fascination on seekers and scholars alike.

Seeing them side by side with Etheridge's terrific portraits of the same men and women forty-five or more years later exerts a fascination reminiscent of Michael Apted's "Seven Up" film series.

Her pet possession -- a clanky black manual typewriter -- exerts a fascination even on a gadget-obsessed generation that reflexively calls in the experts whenever a piece of technology breaks down.

Ruth Rendell's eyes exert a fascination on those who meet her.

Yet punk continues to exert a fascination matched only by the psychedelic blaze of the mid-Sixties.

They exert a fascination, both on their designers and their fans, that transcends the technology's current practical uses.

More than 30 years after her death, Joan Crawford continues to exert a fascination that has little or nothing to do with her gifts as an actress, a fact that is one working definition of the term "movie star".

The writer reminisced nostalgically about the odor, "a mingling of oranges and oysters," and recalled that the stalls of miscellany had "exerted a fascination which often caused one to linger and miss his boat".