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...Daryl Sng '01 edits music for The Crimson. His cholesterol is 261, but his blood pressure is 71/40. He adores NaCl...
...that they went to school in the city for about a month before they concluded that they would rather sing in bars than study all day. But somewhere down the line one of them learned basic chemistry, and they exploit their rather finite knowledge in a love song called "NACL" about two sympathetic characters, an atom of chlorine ("valence minus one"), and "handsome sodium." This is the kind of song that makes you wonder what there is to think about all day in the backwoods of Canada. This off the wall song, which basically tells of the romantic side...
...other surrealistic song on the album, "Side of Fries," is just as strange as "NACL," but not as funny. The idea of a well-dressed hotdog amidst a panoply of random images doesn't hold together well enough to give the song a central idea, but listening to "Side of Fries" is akin to reading James Joyce without the notes...
Taste for Salt. By far the most ancient and frequently used of all food additives, of course, is sodium chloride (NaCl), or "common salt," which is essential to animal life. Grazing animals and fish extract it from the plants they eat. So peoples who live largely by hunting and fishing get all their bodies' salt requirements with no special effort...
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