Word: berkeley
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...department stores: "I found that unsalted butter has a fantastic taste all its own, and vegetables have a finer, purer flavor without salt." The reason may be that a high-salt diet blunts the natural ability to perceive salt, while cutting back makes the palate more sensitive. Research by Berkeley Food Sciolist Angela Little has led her to believe that "high intake of salt produces a salty background in the saliva, raising the threshold at which salt is noticed in food...
...BERKELEY-An ultra-conservative political group has asked the state attorney general and the Alameda County District Attorney's office to investigate its claim that international terrorism-including the recent kidnapping of Brig. Gen. James Dozier in Italy-can be linked to "radical networks" centered at the University of California at Berkeley...
...committee's report charges that Giovanni Senzani, a purported Red Brigade terrorist whom Italian police have linked to the Dozier kidnapping, is being investigated for possible membership in terrorist networks associated with the Berkeley sociology and criminology departments...
Robert Belleh, chairman of Berkeley's sociology department, labeled the charges "nothing but a smear," adding that casting an academic department as terrorist without specifically naming anyone is "sounding off with nonsense...
Several suspected terrorists have visited and studied at Berkeley. Senzani attended the campus in 1972-73, and the Oakland Tribune reported last year that Iranian revolutionary leaders also studied there...