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Snowboarding, both freestyle and Alpine, is clearly not just a fad. It's easier to learn than skiing. It's more adaptable to changing snow conditions. And to the chagrin of its grunge contingent, Mom and Dad are buying boards. Brian Delaney, who runs adult snowboarding camps in Colorado, says the average age of his student is 40 and business is up 200% over last year...
Most evidence comes from highly suggestible, scandalously pressured children; some from that newest pseudoscientific fad, recovered memory. "We should not be dragging people through the courts on folklore," protests psychology professor Elizabeth Loftus. Well, folklore reigned in Wenatchee, Washington--Has anyone checked the state water supply?--site of perhaps the most notorious such case. There, Pastor Robert Roberson and about a dozen parishioners were said to have lined up to have sex with young children in front of the altar while shouting, "Hallelujah, there goes the devil...
...deployed. An anticorruption drive by Jiang has resulted in a rash of arrests--47,560 in 1995--and each week the official media report the incarceration or execution of several corrupt bureaucrats or businessmen. Jiang has also approved a slew of nationalistic campaigns, including a drive against the recent fad of putting miniature foreign flags on the dashboards of private cars and taxis, a practice now officially banned in Shanghai and Dalian. ''To place a foreign flag in a place where a Chinese national flag should be placed will not only bring damage to the nation's dignity but also...
...PERILS OF THE SIMPLE LIFE'' [SOCIETY, Nov. 6] was a sarcastic, bitter and misleading denigration of a positive, empowering and growing movement toward living a less complicated life. Simplicity isn't just a "new fad,'' but its time may have come. A growing number of people are realizing that working more, earning more, doing more and owning more do not result in greater happiness or an increased sense of well-being. It's been said, "We are spending money we don't have to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like.'' Voluntary simplicity, living...
SERIAL KILLERS DON'T DESERVE much sympathy, but, Jeez, can't we leave them alone for a while? There aren't all that many multiple maniacs in the forensic literature--not nearly so many, it seems, as in the new movies. To judge from Hollywood's fall fad, folks can't go to bed or step into a shower or visit a ladies' room without bumping into an evil genius who has exotic plans for kitchen cutlery. With Seven, Never Talk to Strangers and now Copycat, serial-killer thrillers are as thick and windy as Republican candidates in New Hampshire...