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Humans can't live without salt, but most Americans could do with far less of it. On average, they consume roughly twice the amount their bodies need. All that gorging has boosted rates of hypertension, heart disease and stroke, costing the U.S. up to $24 billion in health care costs and 150,000 lives every year. Amid growing public-health concern, PepsiCo announced plans to introduce a "designer salt" (its crystals are shaped in a way that wrings more taste out of smaller amounts) that will reduce the sodium in Lay's Classic potato chips and other snacks...
...problem of climate change: artificial photosynthesis, harnessing sunlight to split water and yield hydrogen and oxygen, which can be used to drive fuel cells and provide cheap, clean electricity. The earth will be saved, as will Beard's flagging career (and bank account). An unrepentant narcissist at heart, Beard has no trouble transitioning from disinterested physicist to clean-energy messiah, addressing conference halls full of skeptical businesspeople. "Now planetary stupidity was his business," McEwan writes - a slogan I should really put on the back of my business cards...
...protagonist. Beard is a Nobel Prize - winning mess, an obese man who can't stop eating, a serial adulterer who takes up with a lusty New Mexico waitress named Darlene while keeping a family back in London. Even his clean-tech business plan is touched by corruption at its heart. The question in Solar is whether Beard's scientific brilliance will win out before his pathological self-destructiveness catches up. So it is with the species. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...Beard is far too human to be the hero they'd hoped for, well, climate scientists should still take heart. At least McEwan - steeped in scientific inquiry and accustomed to facing hard truths in his fiction - is no climate-change denier. "Here's the good news," Beard tells a business partner who is worried that climate doubters will hurt their business. "The U.N. estimates that already a third of a million people are dying from climate change. Even as we speak, Bangladesh is going down because the oceans are warming and expanding and rising." In other words, says a jovial...
...started playing with more heart and intensity,” Tetreault said. “We became more aggressive...