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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.
Fittingly enough, Avis' roots lie in what turned out to be one of the great fads of the century, namely, air travel.
The history of the myriad painful fads women have subjected themselves to over the years--iron maidens, rubber girdles, breast binding--may help remind viewers what all that '60s bra-burning was about.
But it does serve as a nice reminder that not all fads are frauds.
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.