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...Crisp green lettuce. Pulpy red tomatoes. Moist orange melons. The heaping displays at salad bars in supermarkets and restaurants across the nation are as appealing to the eye as they are tempting to the palate. For many people, building a salad to order is a bountiful, healthful new ritual. But for some there is a hidden canker. To keep fruits and vegetables tantalizingly fresh, produce has often been sprayed or dipped in sulfite solutions that prevent wilting and discoloration. Sulfites were long considered safe, but in recent years their skyrocketing use has brought disturbing reports. At least twelve deaths have...
From the opening of last week's party conference, only the fourth of its kind since 1921, it was clear that Deng was thoroughly in charge. As red flags outside the building snapped in a crisp autumn breeze, General Secretary Hu Yaobang, 70, told the 992 delegates that the leadership reshuffle that had begun in 1982 was now "nearly completed." Hu praised the retirees for their "exemplary role" in relinquishing their positions and suggested that "it is in response to the needs of the party that most veterans have retired...
...crisp single to the opposite field, his trademark for 23 summers, Rose displaces Ty Cobb as baseball' s most prolific hitter. The long- awaited drama has an unexpected poignancy, with the great Cincinnati roughneck in tears amid a sea of cheers. Others still weep for the sport. At the Pittsburgh drug trial, no name is inviolate, not even Willie Mays...
...Beirut airport, where the hostages and their luggage were assembled for what was expected to be an imminent trip to Damascus. It looked like a rather shaggy adult-education class being called to order, except for the gun-toting Amal guards watching from rooftops. In his now familiar crisp tones, Allyn Conwell called out the names of his 38 fellow American hostages, only 31 of whom answered "here" or "present." Three of those absent were not a cause of alarm. They were the crewmen of the TWA jet, who had been kept in the aircraft most of the time...
Climate was definitely a problem. On the first beautiful, crisp fall day of freshman year, he got up for a 10 a.m. class with only a few minutes to spare, saw the sun, pulled on shorts, and left. By the beginning of Moral Reasoning lecture at 11, he was turning blue from the cold. "I was so pissed--so pissed. And I still get caught...