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While researching the story, Adrianne Jucius, who read through stacks of scientific treatises on sodium chloride, evolved what she calls a "salt consciousness," and adds, "I have not refilled the salt shaker since working on the story." Patricia Delaney, who reported on the cover from the Midwest, notes that her favorite Chinese restaurant is cutting back on salt, but the chefs inspired substitution of splashes of bourbon for soy sauce has proved "delectable." At home, Boston's Sue Wymelenberg banned salt from her table. "The taste of breads, pasta, cookies, omelets and fish was unmarred," she says...
...reason is that salt and sodium lurk in unlikely places (see chart). Limiting salt is not just a matter of giving up pickles, pretzels and anchovy pizzas, or throwing out the salt shaker. A single serving of instant chocolate pudding can have twice as much sodium as a small bag of potato chips, and a scoop of cottage cheese three times that of a handful of salted peanuts. Thanks in part to the sodium in baking powder and baking soda, baked goods and cereals are the No. 1 source of sodium in the diet of many Americans. Preservatives such...
...effort to keep the troops in line. There are those who say a Reagan presidency would be the best thing that could happen to the left--four years of fascism, they reason, might turn Americans into leftists again. The people who talk like this most often live in Shaker Heights and practice corporate law during the day; if Ronald Reagan wins his battle, Common Cause may thrive, but Americans on the edge of poverty will suffer horribly...
Being a Black woman at Harvard compounded her sense of isolation. The first day she was here Wilkerson encountered the type of racist attitudes that in Shaker Heights "were kept quiet," While she waited outside the janitor's room to get the keys to her freshman dorm, another newly arrived freshman asked her if she was the janitor's assistant. "I was shocked--I expected race not to be an issue here," she says, adding that she quickly realized that although Harvard students were bright many "brought their racism with them...
...knee injury that summer jolted her back into dealing with the world outside of dance. The leading dance doctor in New York told her she couldn't dance again. Crushed, she returned to Shaker Heights. "Dancing had always been a part of my life and suddenly it was not longer there," she says...