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Fashion Flashback: 10 Fads from My Childhood
Published:Wed, 16 May 2012 09:01:01 -0700  
Jelly shoes? Chokers? Bandannas? Columnist Stephanie Castillo takes you back to the good old days....

Are you wasting pennies on foodie fads?
Published:Tue, 08 May 2012 16:00:00 -0700  
Nearly £50 for a fizzy drink? And £25-odd for a litre of ice cream? Surely not…...

Are you wasting money on foodie fads?
Published:Sat, 12 May 2012 16:00:00 -0700  
Nearly £50 for a fizzy drink? And £25-odd for a litre of ice cream? Surely not…...

'Leadership By Kindness' And Other Dumb Management Fads
Published:Wed, 02 May 2012 13:36:25 -0700  
There?s an industry out there selling leadership ?secrets? to executives in American industry, and it seems to have an insatiable customer base. Whether it?s consultants, psychologists or business writers, everyone seems to have the silver bullet that will transform numb, listless administrators of the status quo into dynamic change agents, creating empowered employees and driving ......

Betting Against Fads in the Fund Industry
Published:Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:14:46 -0700  
Imitation, the saying goes, is the sincerest form of flattery. In the financial services industry, it's often flattery that investors could do well without: A crush of similar products in a niche market is often a sign to run in the opposite direction....

Christian Cool, or Fake Fads?
Published:Wed, 02 May 2012 05:17:44 -0700  
Dozens of faculty and staff at a Georgian Christian academic institute are resigning over a statement from school officials in which employees must pledge to refrain from activities including drug use, alcohol, adultery, and homosexuality....

Study: Weight-loss fads not as helpful as exercising, eating less
Published:Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:00:00 -0700  
LOS ANGELES -- Nearly two-thirds of Americans who are obese try to lose weight, and about 40 percent of them actually succeed. How did they do it? The old-school way: by eating less, exercising more and switching to more healthful foods, according to a new study....

Silvia Killingsworth: Atera in Tribeca review.
Published:Sun, 13 May 2012 21:06:04 -0700  
paragraph class="noindent"New York has seen cupcake and fried-chicken fads, but the city’s current food idol is the ramp, a limp and unassuming wild onion harvested in early spring. Ramps are featured in several dishes at the forager chef Matthew Lightner’s Atera, in Tribeca . . ....

5 Deadliest Diet Trends: Pills That Really Can Kill
Published:Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:23:08 -0700  
Beware: The latest diet fads are not only dangerous, they could be deadly. If a weight loss pill sounds too good to be true, it probably is....