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A piece describes the manifold accomplishments of National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus, who has won bipartisan support for the research center, focused the NIH on nuts-and-bolts research rather than disease-of-the-week fads, and artfully guided the human genome project.
The paper's tone was more funeral dirge than rallying cry: "One of the more regrettable consumer fads of the 1990s has been the invasion of ersatz American-style coffee bars, all stainless steel and froth and cool.
While such anecdotes commonly spur alternative-medicine fads, Eby took the admirable step of instigating a 1984 clinical trial of zinc lozenges that found the treatment cut the duration of colds in half.
Fittingly enough, Avis' roots lie in what turned out to be one of the great fads of the century, namely, air travel.
But it does serve as a nice reminder that not all fads are frauds.