Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a very rainy spring, a bright, warm day finally appeared. I rushed poolside with a sugar-free soda, a salt-free snack and TIME. To my dismay, I started reading about the harmful effects of the sun [May 30]. One more pleasure in life that I will have to do without! On second thought, I decided just to give up reading...
...quit the New York Times four years ago to devote himself to this project. In 656 pages he blends some new versions of old rumors with some new research (especially about the Paris peace talks that ended the Viet Nam War and about the intricate negotiating leading up to SALT II) that add up to a most unflattering portrait...
...introduction to his book, Hersh takes dutiful note of Kissinger's and Nixon's "diplomatic triumphs": the opening of China, the SALT treaty, the end of American involvement in Viet Nam, most prominent among them. But Hersh denigrates even those accomplishments, concluding, for example, that Kissinger "cheated" his way to a summit and "lied" about the SALT treaty. Hersh adds scattershot allegations about a number of international events and situations, including charges that Nixon received a large cash contribution to his election campaign in 1968 from the military junta that ran Greece in the late 1960s and early...
...heavy rains and runoff in Utah turned a main street in Salt Lake City into a river, where enterprising citizens were catching fish. But mud slides in towns to the north pose a greater and continuing danger. "We can control the water, but the mud just goes where it wants to," explained Davis County Deputy Sheriff Harry Jones. "All we can do is try to anticipate where it is going and then get out of the way." Says another deputy, Pat Bird: "When it gets dark, nobody knows when it is coming or where it's coming from...
...Boston's Beth Israel Hospital that uses techniques of easing stress to fight hypertension. Begun in September 1982, the program has succeeded in lowering the blood pressure of most of its participants. Besides relaxation techniques (imagine watching your breath go in and out), the regimen involves a low-salt, low-cholesterol diet emphasizing fresh food. (Cost of the program: $750 for eleven group meetings, plus tests and an evaluation session with the doctor.) Trying to meet the standards of the program, one man at the session mildly complains, is so hard that the very effort to cut back...