Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place, sand must somehow be trapped, much as a snow fence traps drifting snow. That something is dune grass. After the dunes form, the roots anchor the sand in place. "Dune grass is pretty hardy stuff," explains Stephen Leatherman, a University of Maryland coastal-erosion expert. "It can take salt spray and high winds. But it just never evolved to take heavy pedestrian traffic or dune buggies." Since the plants depend on chlorophyll in their green leafy parts to convert sunlight into food, he says, and since there is only so much food reserve in the roots, "a couple...
...wetlands normally protected by barrier islands off Louisiana are disappearing as well. In both Louisiana and Texas, where channels deep enough for barges have been cut through marshes, the dredging and waves caused by ship and boat traffic have accelerated the normal process of shoreline loss. What is more, salt water from the Gulf of Mexico has flowed into the marshes, endangering local fisheries...
...food stores, to stock their "homemade" salad bars. Can't Budge Fudge zapped peanut butter with chocolate for a truly throat-clutching effect, and the Beverly Hills Confection Collection dished up samples of brittle with rancid- tasting peanuts. Everywhere were products for the health- and diet- conscious: "lo" in salt, sugar, calories and fat, and "lite," meaning anything one wanted it to. Sweet, as usual, seemed to be the top flavor. Perhaps as Americans give up salt, they reach for sugar, figuring that one gritty white seasoning is as good as another...
...irreverent: "The First Annual Fawn Hall Shredding Party" at a bar in Marina del Rey, Calif., in which the contest winner destroyed a computer printout marked CONFIDENTIAL. And the worshipful: a candlelight vigil by about 100 Olliephiles gathered on the steps of the Utah state capitol in Salt Lake City. The vigil, organized by an Annapolis classmate of North's, began with the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by spirited chanting of "We love Ollie...
MARRIED. Sharlene Wells, 23, Miss America of 1985; and Robert Allen Hawkes, 25, a physical therapy student; in Salt Lake City. Wells, like her husband a Mormon attending Brigham Young University, attributed her beauty crown to the pageant's need for restored wholesomeness after disclosures that 1984 Winner Vanessa Williams had posed nude for photographs...