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...complex societies where citizens are subject to all sorts of variables, including stress, that could contribute to hypertension. More convincing evidence against sodium conies from simpler cultures, where it is still possible to find people living relatively simple lives on low-salt diets. The tribesmen in New Guinea, the Amazon Basin, the highlands of Malaysia and rural Uganda all eat very little salt. Hypertension is virtually unheard of in those regions, and the blood pressure of individuals does not rise steadily with age, as it does in the U.S. and other salt-loving nations. But when salt is introduced into...
...daily teas. While talking of Williams, every person mentioned his afternoon teas, where any topic of conversation is brought up. Drinking tea and eating cookies, Williams and his students, colleagues, and frequent special guests talk about people's special projects, politics, his trip up the Amazon, silk in Japan, or any miscellaneous topic that comes to mind. Even Williams' own work is analyzed by his visitors at tea and everyone says he takes the criticism very well...
...American Billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for approximately 6,000 sq. mi. of dense rain forest in the country's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the area to help meet anticipated world shortages of food, lumber and wood pulp for papermaking...
Last week, after investing more than $1 billion, Ludwig, 84 and ailing, decided to abandon his cherished "Jari" project, named for an Amazon tributary that winds through the property. Possibly the largest entrepreneurial effort ever undertaken by one man, Jari had just begun to generate significant cash flows, but they were nowhere near as large as Ludwig had originally envisioned. Jari will now be sold to a consortium of Brazilian banks, insurance companies and industrial groups...
...attempting to start his lumber and paper business, for example, he had to clear the land to plant new trees. Several Caterpillar "jungle crushers," giant bulldozers costing $250,000 each, were brought in to do the job, but the machines proved inappropriate because they damaged the unexpectedly delicate Amazon topsoil...