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Frederick J. Stare, a crusading nutritionist who debunked fad diets and founded Harvard’s department of nutrition, died last Thursday at his home in Wellesley, Mass...
Most of the moviegoers crowding the multiplex for The Lord of the Rings weren't around for the first Tolkien fad. TIME was, in an issue that featured Indonesia's GENERAL SUHARTO on the cover...
...therein lies the answer to people who wonder whether any of the changes of this dark autumn will stick, or whether they pass like a fad, more honorable than most but no more lasting. No one has got it perfectly right. This is not a Disney cartoon. But every time we fail or fall short, we admire just a little more the ones who manage to keep going. And we do our best to catch...
...therein lies the answer to people who wonder whether any of the changes of this dark autumn will stick, or whether they pass like a fad, more honorable than most but no more lasting. No one has got it perfectly right. This is not a Disney cartoon. But every time we fail or fall short, we admire just a little more the ones who manage to keep going. And we do our best to catch...
...Shibuya district of Tokyo is a teen mecca by day, by night a neon-signed playground of drinking holes and sex clubs for adult men looking for a good time. Mai and Rika hang here round the clock, part of a new fad sweeping up very young Japanese girls. It's called puchi iede, or "petite runaway." Home is what they're running from. Shibuya, with its 24-7 excitements and black-lit havens, is freedom central. "Petite" refers not to the size of the runaway, though many are mere wisps on the cusp of puberty, but to the short...