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Older, wiser and freed from the tyranny of matching outfits, alumni of the 1990s' boy-band fad are on to new projects. Here's a grownup's guide...
...Gross’ eyes, the post-1978 fad has lasted too long. “I look forward to the day when students view binge drinking the way they view cigarette smoking today, as a dangerous habit,” he says...
Hail, Mary "Hail, Mary" was a splendid analysis of a development in spirituality that goes profoundly beyond the goddess fad that has captured our imaginations for years [March 21]. The piety and deepest consciousness of a human being seek a feminine face, especially in a world whose cultures are saturated with patriarchy. Thank you for helping rescue Mary, a kind of biblical goddess, from passive neglect. Many of us appreciate your generous examples of Protestants, including Methodists like me, who keep opening doors of faiths that are traditional but are willing to take risks. (The Rev.) Marvin E. Repinski Austin...
...Japanese celebrities?like actress Mami Kumagai, who has been using Fukumitsuya's Amino Rice line?hasn't done any harm either. Some producers are now trying to boost skin-care goods to 50% of all sake sales, and hope that the current buzz is more than just a passing fad. If it isn't, they'll certainly have plenty of sake left over in which to drown their sorrows...
StriVectin is either the latest fad in that movement or an antiaging silver bullet, depending on whom you ask. But in either case, it is clearly one of the most talked about new products in the industry, roiling competitors, realigning expectations and even prompting lawsuits--from Botox maker Allergan, which disputes StriVectin's advertising claims, and from StriVectin itself, against alleged copycat marketers pushing similarly named knock-offs. Priced at a hefty $135 per 6-oz. tube, StriVectin, made by privately held Klein-Becker, a division of Salt Lake City, Utah-- based weight-loss-supplement maker Basic Research, last year...