Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secret scandal of the health and fitness craze is that after...
...that is so, and why it finally hit home in the middle of what everybody thought was a fitness craze, is harder to explain. It's a complex story, experts say, one that pits a lucrative diet industry against an even bigger and more aggressive packaged-food industry. It pits a handful of exercise machines against a century of labor-saving devices. It pits a frenetic workaday pace against the understandable temptation to put one's feet up at the end of the day, turn on the tube and just veg out. It may even turn out that the best...
Last year's shiny silver dollar has become this season's lump of coal. The toy craze inspired by the Steven Spielberg movie has run its course, analysts say. "It was a promotional product line and, like all of them, it had a limited lifespan...
Other musical groups aren't quite as ready to replace human players with machines in the studio, but some are taking advantage of the current multimedia craze to release CD-ROM versions of their recordings. These special editions often contain both sound data from their audio CD cousins and computer data that can be loaded into a Windows or Macintosh PC to provide a graphical interface to the music...
...Manhattan's Lower East Side Needle Exchange, in the area where police claim the drug was bought, told TIME Daily the brand isn't well known on the street and noted that a bag labeled China Cat was found with only one of the bodies. Instead of a craze, many users think, the tragedies might be isolated. "People think what happened was the guy who made it probably didn't know what the hell he was doing," said Tim Thayer, a 15-year heroin user who helps at the Exchange.Post to National Affairs "Legalize Drugs...