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With research in its infancy, investigators can only guess at the number of SAD victims -- in the U.S., the figure is estimated at anywhere from 450,000 to 5 million -- and they caution against making SAD the new fad disorder. Experts say the syndrome, which afflicts about four times as many women as men, usually appears in the early 20s. But the malady has been diagnosed in children as young as nine. Child Psychiatrist William Sonis of the University of Pennsylvania, who in a 1985 survey found that 6.5% of 1,000 students at a suburban Minnesota high school...
Pianist John Jarvis uses rock overtones and country twinges to bring a welcome whiff of down- home to the New Age fad...
...Mars was once widely believed to be inhabited by little green men, so when Orson Welles declared on the radio in 1938 that space invaders had landed, much of the nation went into a panic. And do not forget The Search for Bridey Murphy. Or the fad of talking to plants. Plus ca change...
Nobody knows just when it all started or what it all means, but millions of Americans now find themselves trying to learn about their former lives, cure illness without medicine, meet travelers from other galaxies, know the unknowable. And through the center of the fad runs the actress, dancer and now best- selling writer- teacher Shirley MacLaine. See Living...
Finally, the toys may cost too much for what they offer. Many parents, all too familiar with child-size attention spans, are wary of the latest fad. "I think these toys are getting outlandish," declares Sheila Menzies, 27, a single mother from Burbank, Calif., as she tows her two toddlers through the local Toys 'R' Us. "They are too expensive, and they leave nothing to the imagination...