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...PRESSURE COOKER Think you'll never develop high blood pressure? Don't be so sure. A new study shows that a staggering 90% of middle-aged Americans will become hypertensive sometime in their lives. How do you reduce your risk? The usual ways: exercise, stay slim and avoid excessive fat, alcohol and salt...
Most experts advise against it. Besides, there's no practical way to do it. Tossing your mail into a pressure cooker set at 15 lbs. for 15 min. would do the trick. Anthrax dies in wet heat above 250[degrees]F. But you would end up with pretty soggy letters. Speaking of soggy, boiling your letters won't work because the water reaches only 212[degrees]F. Ironing with steam heat may kill off the spores if you can get the iron hot enough, but then you risk setting your mail on fire. As for microwaving, you would need...
...adroitly marketed Aga lifestyle comes complete with dedicated cookery books, special cast- iron kitchenware in some of the cooker's eight standard colors, expensive training courses given by chefs and cooks around the country, and even a quarterly magazine with proud owners' photographs of Agas in the bosom of their families. Despite this wholesome picture of Aga life, the stove is a daunting prospect for a first-time user. The doors have no conventional handles - they are lifted open and shut like gates. More worrying still, there are no temperature dials to adjust either the hotplates or ovens...
...theme of getting tough on China, President Bush had hardly been in office two months when he was faced with the complex challenges posed by the spy-plane incident. Although the President and his cabinet secretaries managed to walk that one back from the precipice, it created a pressure-cooker environment for the formulation of policy in Washington's most complex strategic relationship. Because mixed messages from the Bush administration tend to generate uncertainty and anxiety in the Chinese leadership, and that tends to work in favor of Beijing's hard-liners...
Ultimately no matter how many bridges Japan builds in Bangladesh, how many rice cooker factories it opens in Bangkok or how many of its comic books are devoured in Seoul, only the Japanese can determine which of its many images will prevail...