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...SALT OF THE EARTH
...Would an author be able to write a whole book about salt? Mark Kurlansky, the author of "Salt: A World History" (Walker: January), says that not only was there enough to fill a whole book, there was too much. "I didn't want to do 'The Salt Story' in five volumes," he says, only half jokingly. "The problem with this book is that every country in the world has its own salt story." Those stories took Kurlansky around the world "more than once" in his three years of writing his book. Kurlansky says that quest for salt has shaped...
...Kurlansky says his interest in salt grew out of his last book, "Cod," since that fish only became an important trade item when it began to be preserved with salt. In the course of his research, he became friends with several "salt historians," who have made the common rock their lives' work. It's not surprising to learn that Americans eat more salt than anyone else, and probably too much. Kurlansky, a former newspaperman at the International Herald Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has had to endure a certain number of quipsters who want to know whether his next book...
...Evicted from a trailer park in Salt Lake City for being polygamous, Green moved to the Snake Valley desert in 1995. His family lives in a complex of battered trailers surrounded by wrecked cars and used tires. It is 100 miles to the nearest hospital or grocery store and 55 miles to the nearest blacktop road. At the local school, in Partoun, 80% of the children come from polygamous families. Green's 25 children--one boy died in a house fire in 1997--are between 2 1/2 and 14 years old. For study and play they are divided into five...
...publicity comes at an awkward time as the state gears up for next winter's Olympics, to be held in Salt Lake City. Some fear the polygamy trial could tarnish Utah's name internationally. Green is not above poking fun at the state's dilemma. "We even thought we would set up a polygamy booth at the airport and sell T shirts with pictures of my wives inside the five Olympic rings...