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...popularize the Italian national dish. Some nutritionists consider it a diet food. Despite the Italian maxim Quel che non ammazza ingrassa (What doesn't kill you fattens you), plain pasta contains no more calories than rice or potatoes. It has protein, phosphorus, calcium, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, iron and potassium, but is low in sodium...
...less important scientifically, both landers managed to drill a few centimeters into the Venusian surface, scoop up some rock and analyze its chemistry. The conclusion: the material at both sites was basalt, fire-formed rock typically found in lava flows on earth. Indeed, based on its telltale traces of potassium, the material at Venera 14's site seemed uncannily like rocks that come out of the earth at the volcanically active mid-ocean ridges...
...labeling, Tennessee Congressman Albert Gore, is unimpressed by these achievements. Gore thinks the voluntary approach is "almost certainly doomed to failure." What is needed, he believes, is a bill to require labeling under law. Along with Iowa Representative Neal Smith, he has written legislation requiring that the sodium and potassium content be marked on all processed and canned foods governed by the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, if the total exceeds 35 mg. The bill is now before a House health subcommittee chaired by California's Henry Waxman. It has 79 co-sponsors in the House, but Gore...
Most of the substitutes are made of potassium chloride. They may taste salty enough but can be so bitter that gourmet cooks tend to avoid them entirely. There is a possibility of danger too, according to some doctors. In very large doses, potassium can cause gastrointestinal ulcers, and for some kidney patients, more moderate doses can be lethal...
...heading OPERATION DARK HARVEST.The message demanded that the government solve the problem of the island's contamination by burying the bacilli beneath thick layers of reinforced concrete, sand and other materials, or by removing the soil completely and burying it elsewhere, or by soaking the island in potassium permanganate solution, or by raising "the temperature of the island to about 1,000° C for two minutes...