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Psychiatrist Ann Kearney-Cooke has been treating eating disorders for 23 years. About 10 years ago, the therapist, who is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, began to notice a disturbing new trend: the average age of her patients kept getting older. "We traditionally think of anorexia and bulimia as affecting those of college or high school age, and that was the case 20 years ago," she says. "Now about half my patients are women in midlife...
...only one seeing that trend. In Philadelphia the Renfrew Center Foundation, which specializes in treating eating disorders, reported a 25% jump in patients older than 35 over the past two years; today those women account for nearly a quarter of its patients. At the Remuda Ranch in Wickenburg, Ariz., the percentage of patients 40 or older has nearly quadrupled, from 3% in 1990 to more than 11% last year...
USER-GENERATED One of the fastest-growing search techniques is tagging, a grassroots phenomenon whereby users label websites with descriptive tags, building a network of knowledge dubbed folksonomy--a taxonomy of knowledge organized by ordinary folk. Yahoo! was quick to spot this trend, and in March bought Flickr, a photo website organized with a communal tagging model. Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo!'s technology director, says the company wants to apply search across all its user-created content. The tagline? "Better search through people...
Brazil's Tramontina has joined the global trend of outsourcing, with a curious twist: the cookwaremaker is moving manufacturing jobs to the U.S. Tramontina last month reopened a shuttered plant in Manitowoc, Wis., and plans to move both line production and raw-material processing there from China. "Once we started looking, we figured out it would be very economical to make our products domestically," says Antonio Galafassi, president of Tramontina USA. Although labor costs are higher, the plant's efficiency and its proximity to big customers offset that disadvantage. The company opened a distribution center in Houston in 1986, when...
...moviemakers, the luxury trend is nothing less than a godsend. "I don't want to be sacrilegious, but theaters are like churches," says Craig Brewer, writer and director of Hustle & Flow. The ramped-up sound systems and huge screens of a great theater convey the experience in ways a home theater can't. "When this beat hits, I want it to feel like when Indiana Jones is punching somebody," he says. Brewer, a Memphis, Tenn., resident who set and shot his film there, held the premiere in his hometown Muvico--a risk he says he probably wouldn't have taken...