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...Chang, a Tokyo correspondent, takes the strictures against salt with the proverbial grain. Salt, he says, "is one of the loveliest things ever discovered by humanity." Obviously a man of moderation, he cites Confucius as suggesting that too little salt is as bad as too much. Says Chang, who likes to salt his tempura: "In the use of salt there is nothing wrong as long as intelligence is exercised." Medicine Writer Claudia Wallis, who wrote the story, first became familiar with the formula and properties of sodium chloride in Chemistry 15 when she was a pre-med freshman at Yale...
KILLER SALT screams the book cover from a huge display of volumes with titles like Shake the Salt Habit!, Cooking Without a Grain of Salt and Halt! No Salt. These days they are selling in the the hundreds of thousands...
...importance of a food to a society can be measured by the allusions to it in language and literature, then the significance of salt is virtually unrivaled. Nearly four pages of the Oxford English Dictionary are taken up by references to salt, more than any other food. "A grain of salt" may be a recipe for skepticism. But there can be no doubt about how salt has seasoned history...
...investment-banking firm of Lazard Frěres: "For the first time in 25 years, the Western governments have a truly credible weapon in their armory, and that's control of the capital markets. The Russians can get technology elsewhere, and lots of people will provide them with grain. But nobody else can make the capital available." A default declaration might force the financially pressed Soviet Union to increase its aid to Poland and the other satellites, Rohatyn argues, and could drive the Soviets into liberalizing the Polish regime and making other political concessions in exchange for resumed Western...
...Soviet Union is hardly in a position to take over all of Poland's problems. Its own economy is weak because of repeated bad harvests, and it has been forced into a cash squeeze to buy grain. Moscow has sold gold heavily on world markets to raise money during the past six months. Even without the risky step of declaring Poland in default, Western banks and governments can still exercise great financial influence over the Communist world. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Richard Homik/Warsaw and Bruce van Voorst/New York