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...talking soothing self-destruction to him: "Me 'n' you're just gonna hang out in this room together. We'll talk it out." And the futile attempts of friends like Actor Jim Brown, and even some of his drug suppliers, to save him from his habit. And of the accident, and his anguished scamper across the lawns of Northridge: "I did the 100-yard dash in four-point-three." And his admission to the hospital-"I was all steam and smoke"-and his excruciatingly painful recovery...
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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...
...against salt (or rather, the sodium that is in salt) has been accumulating steadily. In the mid-1970s, in response to public outcry and Government and medical criticism, manufacturers stopped adding it to baby food. An over-salted infancy, it was thought, could be the start of a lifelong habit. For decades, cutting down on salt has been a primary medical treatment for the control of hypertension. More important, an extraordinary statistical connection has been found between the amount of salt that a population consumes and its incidence of hypertension...
...Brideshead Revisited, Life on Earth and the National Geographic special The Sharks-shows that have brought PBS fresh prestige, ec static reviews and record-breaking ratings. The pool of shows that will attract audiences (and potential subscribers) looks to be drying up just when PBS is be coming a habit for millions of new viewers. "Our audiences have never been greater, and our programs have never been better," claims Christensen. "It is not a coincidence that this year also represents the highest level of federal funding we've ever had. The two are closely tied...