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The article examines an increase in the number of U.S. residents who keep chickens, both to produce eggs and as pets. The growth of small businesses which sell chicken-related supplies to pet owners is discussed, focusing on companies which produce diapers for chickens allowing them to be inside the owners' homes. Several chicken owners explain why they take pleasure in their pets.

Describes how many Americans experienced an attack of nuclear anxiety, which was triggered by watching footage of India's nuclear tests. How fear of nuclear war was once fundamental to the American psyche, the subject of novels, movies and even presidential-campaign advertisements; The recession of the fear with the fall of the Berlin Wall; How feeding the anxiety is a paper published in the `New England Journal of Medicine' by members of Physicians for Social Responsibility.