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...seem a letdown, and Percy's answer threatens, for a time, to stop The Thanatos Syndrome dead in its tracks. Tom, aided by his young, distant and potentially kissing cousin Lucy Lipscomb, herself a doctor and an epidemiologist, discovers that the local water supply is being laced with heavy sodium from the coolant of a nearby nuclear power plant. Whodunit? Not, it turns out, the National Institutes of Health or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The villains are a couple of doctors, both known to Tom, who have contrived on their own to salvage the "American social fabric" by doping...
...with a simple process, akin to fluoridation, that makes people happier than in their natural state and that dramatically reduces crime and social pathologies? Are Dr. More's spaced-out patients better now than when he treated them for the normal run of human miseries? A mastermind of the sodium conspiracy taunts him, "You can't give me one good reason why what I am doing is wrong...
Cambridge's reservoir currently has been measured to have 50 milligrams of sodium per liter, she said. The recommended standard for those persons under sodium restricted diets perscribes that water containing over 20 miligrams of sodium per liter, should not be consumed, she said...
...such alternative, said Pickard, is the use of a salt-substitute for highways. The DPW is currently testing for the first time this winter, a "pre-mix" of four parts sodium-chloride and one part calcium-chloride...
...everything from menu planning to getting bubble gum out of household carpets to figuring how much food to buy for a party of 300. The home-ec experts maintain "special-foods programs" of particular dietary products at each outlet. Says Byerly: "Let's say your doctor prescribed a low-sodium diet. The home economist will give you a blue folder listing everything that you can buy in the store that's low sodium. And each of the products is marked with blue tags on the shelves." The same system is used for low-cholesterol and low-calorie diets...