Word: pet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most successful businesses are the ones that can read the new economy and exploit its moods. There are fortunes to be made, for instance, by recognizing the potential of fish as furniture. Fish have become a perfect pet for the 1990s, where no one's around much but everyone wants his house to be all the homier anyway. So aquarium sales are through the roof. That is good news at Petland, a Chillicothe-based company whose success is nurtured as much by the weaknesses of America's two-income economy as by its strengths. Thirty years ago, Ed Kunzelman...
...that tobacco executives have come to the bargaining table. Consider the state of Missouri, which so far has steered clear of the tobacco suits. "I expect us to get in," Governor Mel Carnahan says. Why now? If there's a windfall, Carnahan would like a slice to fund a pet program to cover kids who lack health insurance. Good politics, that...
Tamagotchi, the latest toy craze in Japan, arrived last week in a Brink's truck at Manhattan's FAO Schwarz. The egg-shaped pet chick has a virtual life right on a key chain, where it's hatched, lives and dies--virtually. When it beeps, the owner is supposed to pet it by pressing its buttons. The chick even leaves virtual droppings to be cleaned up. It sells on Japan's black market for $500, but the suggested U.S. retail price is $15. The profits are real...
...psychosocial interventions, ranging from psychotherapy to 12-step programs, can and do help. Cognitive therapy, which seeks to supply people with coping skills (exercising after work instead of going to a bar, for instance), appears to hold particular promise. After just 10 weeks of therapy, before-and-after pet scans suggest, some patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (which has some similarities with addiction) manage to resculpt not only their behavior but also activity patterns in their brain...
...image was produced in a two-step process. First the researchers used pet scans, which measure how well cells are functioning, to probe the brains of dozens of people in the active throes of depression. Then they merged the results and compared them with those from a comparable number of normal patients. The pet scans showed a subtle but distinct difference: the subgenual prefrontal cortex was almost 8% less active in depressed patients than in the controls...