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After the success of a recent culinary display station on “Salt...the only rock we eat,” dining halls will debut a series of exhibits on grades of meat unfit for human consumption. Did I say “debut?...
...prefer to make audiences giggle. Their eponymous album, released in late 2002, isn’t particularly gripping—a series of sunny pop songs equally influenced by emo and the retro-chic of bands like The Apples in Stereo. But OK Go, like all bands worth their salt, come into their own when playing live...
When Pat Roitman turned 40, she began to notice red splotches and parched skin on her face. So she started taking quarterly trips from Detroit to New York City for medi-spa services. The airline employee, now 43, says microdermabrasion salt peels administered under a doctor's supervision have rid her face of blemishes and moisturized her dry skin. "I get a smoother surface on my face after a salt peel. I'm going after that porcelain-beautiful skin, and I want to do everything I can to have it," says Roitman...
...duracrust gave new relevance to a study published in 2000 by microbiologist Russell Vreeland of Pennsylvania's West Chester University. Vreeland discovered some 250 million-year-old salt crystals in New Mexico that contained tiny quantities of ancient water. The water held preserved spores that sprang back to life once their salt and nutrient levels were adjusted. Whether this is possible in the punishing, radiation-soaked environment of Mars is hard to say, but it certainly makes anything that hints at salt worth a closer look...
...National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute changed its guidelines last year. What it used to call a "high normal" level--from 120/80 mm Hg to 139/89 mm Hg--is now considered prehypertensive. The move should prompt more people to lower their salt intake and exercise, both ways to avoid high blood pressure...