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Perhaps the oddest indication of Polish interest in things Jewish is a craze for kosher drinks. The hottest-selling alcoholic beverage is ``kosher vodka,'' with a label showing bearded rabbis in prayer shawls and Polish names in Hebrew-like lettering. There is also kosher beer and even kosher mineral water, not generally required of even the most orthodox of Jews, who are content to drink tap water...
...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...