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...Kurlansky says his interest in salt grew out of his last book, "Cod," since that fish only became an important trade item when it began to be preserved with salt. In the course of his research, he became friends with several "salt historians," who have made the common rock their lives' work. It's not surprising to learn that Americans eat more salt than anyone else, and probably too much. Kurlansky, a former newspaperman at the International Herald Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has had to endure a certain number of quipsters who want to know whether his next book...
Traugott added that the comforter was suspiciously pulled down all the way to the floor and may have caught the eye of inspectors. Gingo said that while such occurrences were rare, if investigators “saw something leading them to believe” that there was a prohibited item in a concealed area, including under a bed, they might check...
...thank-you note should contain three things: an acknowledgment of the gift (Love the tie with the picture of a horse on it); a recognition of the time and effort spent to select it (You must have shopped all over the state to find such a unique item!); and a prediction of how you will use your gift or the way it has enhanced your life (I'll be sure to wear it to the next Mr. Ed convention...
...have complained recently about the presence of Christmas trees as “religious symbols” in the Houses. In response to this anguish over the existence of a tree with lights on it, several Harvard commentators have said that the Christmas tree has mostly become a secular item. Even where it is not purely secular, they say, it has no overtones specific to any one faith...
Another name wearyingly familiar to European investigators also figures in Garzón?s indictment: that of Abu Qatada, the Palestinian-born cleric whose fundamentalist sermons appear to have been a must-do item for al-Qaeda activists passing through London. Yarkas is alleged to have visited Qatada on at least one of his estimated 20 trips to London since 1996, and to have transferred money to him as well. Jacquard calls Qatada "the one person who invariably has had contact with everyone and anyone of stature in the radical Islamist world...