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...What do you think about the new boy-band, candy-crap craze like the Backstreet Boys, Nsync...
There's a reason Salem is such a big draw: 300 years ago, as everyone who has read "The Crucible" in high school knows, 19 men and women were hanged here in a five-month witch craze spanning the summer...
...could have lost this much eating low fat," she says. "But the times I dieted that way before, it was always a struggle. With these diets, you just feel miraculously free of the craving and the drive to eat." The weight-beleaguered Cathy confronted the low-carb diet craze in her comic strip last week, uncharacteristically stifling an "Aack!" through five days of her co-workers' cheeseburger-eating braggadocio. Demand for beef in 1999 is projected to rise 1.6% over last year, and for pork 2.3%. Having it your way now includes having a plate, fork and knife included with...
Carb paranoia struck when people discovered that all the fat-free food they loaded up on during the last diet craze was making them fat. Diet plans like the Pritikin Program of the early '80s and Susan Powter's Stop the Insanity! in 1993 caused a run on processed low-fat food like SnackWell's and frozen yogurt. But those treats, it turned out, were chock-full of sugar and a whole mess of calories. Result: you gained weight. The reaction in recent years has been to eliminate sugar by dropping carbohydrates from the menu altogether. So instead...
...According to Andrew Huang, president of the Harvard Anime Society, the current craze that we're witnessing had humble beginnings. "Many people who had seen 'Robotech' or 'Voltron' as kids found out where it had come from, and that there was more of it," Huang explained. "This was the core of the fan base for a long while. In more recent times, as word got out and these fans introduced their hobby to non-fan friends, anime started to spread more and more into the mainstream...