Word: salt
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...Whenever I read remarks like those, I am reminded of the fact that only 4% of our DNA sequences are different from those of chimpanzees, and that like our fellow primates we are but dumb mammals, powerless in the presence of cheap stimulants (Salt! Sugar! Fats!). The arguments we use to justify our dependence on them are callow and banal - why, for example, is eating healthily equated with being "boring," when nothing could be more boring than being dead? Why do we obsessively focus on the one-in-a-million 90-year-olds who survive against all odds, and ignore...
...Paul Still Scares Me.” Current Red Ivy editor Frances I. Martel ’09 thinks informative websites like VoteGopher.com can be a good way for students to learn about candidates’ issues, but warns them to take the postings with a grain of salt. “Everyone is biased to some extent,” says Martel. But even if the sites aren’t completely balanced, cute furries can make even agricultural subsidies seem almost fun and interesting...
...forth. There's virtually no line in this book that isn't typical of the whole, so this one will serve: "She flung herself onto the Turkoman's back and with the rank bacon smell of his oiled hair in her nostrils bit off his ear, a salt apricot between her teeth...
...forcing a 14-year-old girl in the group to marry her 19-year-old cousin. Jessop, 38, tells her extraordinary story in a riveting new book, Escape (Broadway). TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Jessop from her home in a suburb of Salt Lake City...
...really broke? How is that possible? -Angie Silverstein, Salt Lake CityI have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks. At the moment, I am on a good upswing financially. But that could all change in a minute...