Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call that kind of talk nonsense. And they have labels of their own. One is "whole math," a pejorative reference to "whole language," the controversial method of reading that emphasizes learning entire words and phrases over mastering phonics. Another is "new-new math," recalling the ill-fated New Math fad of the 1960s and '70s, which introduced millions of students to math arcana like set theory and congruences. (Remember those? Didn't think...
...million female baby boomers reluctantly edging toward the half-century mark and beginning to suffer the symptoms of perimenopause, phytoestrogens are shaping up as the next big health fad--as big, perhaps, as fiber and omega-3 fatty acids rolled into one. The reason: many women are unhappy with the options mainstream medicine has to offer. For younger women in perimenopause, gynecologists sometimes prescribe low-dose birth-control pills to even out hormone levels. And as full menopause draws nearer, physicians typically prescribe Premarin, an estrogen derived from pregnant mares' urine. But while the benefits of Premarin are considerable--among...
Will readers tire of this fad after thumbing through the 11th book on anorexia and the seventh expose of transsexual aunts? Publishers, for the moment, are betting on a continuing bull market. There are some 267 million stories in the naked U.S., all of them yearning to be told and sold...
...that historical juncture would have faced the prospect of letting previous generations of strapping men and fecund women die out and replacing them with a new population of intellectual giants. "What is a better human being?" asks Boston University ethicist George Annas. "A lot of it is just fad...
...fad foiled. An oil prized by fitness buffs as a low-cholesterol energy booster may, in fact, raise cholesterol. A study suggests that the fat, MCT oil, can elevate BAD CHOLESTEROL (LDL) as much as the notorious cholesterol-raiser palm...