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...that shedding flab and following a diet rich in vegetables and vegetable oils, but low in red meat and dairy products-along with moderate drinking (a cocktail or two a day)-can also elevate HDL. In the future, drugs may also be used; a compound known as PHB (for sodium para-hexadecylaminobenzoate) has been shown by Boston University's Dr. William Hollander to raise HDL levels in monkeys...
...with all the clamoring from those damn-screaming-Naderites-or-worse-in-what-remains-of-the-New-Left about the "hazardous poisons" in our food, the price of additive futures plummeted and the Food Servicers made a monumental decision, followed by what was apparently the largest over-the-counter Sodium Nitrite deal in the history of organized chemicals. After all, a federal judge had given the Concorde the go-ahead to land in New York City, we could put a man on the moon, so why the phosphoric acid couldn't the University's team of Bocuse-trained, Michelin-three...
...told, who had to spoil it for everybody: they lobbied for that silly Delaney Clause (banning any amount of known cancer producing additives from food consumed by American human beings) in 1958, and now look what they've done. Why, you can't even nosh on a sodium nitrite dog any more without coming down with a dose of what Feedback happily diagnoses as "cancerphobia...another serious and widespread ailment in America...
Then back. North Carolina mountains give way to Virginny hills and suburbs, to Washington D.C. sodium orange crimefighter lights; then Maryland's middle classness from whence came Spiro; Delaware River a test-tube for dynamite, gunpowder and napalm; New Jersey wasteland where poets rot as general practitioners; New York where seven million were swallowed by the Tall Ships; Connecticut state cops always on the other side of a divided highway, thank Grasso! The Massachusetts autobahn...
Maps, analemmas, collaged owls and jigsawed parrots, mirrors, watchsprings, scraps of tulle, cones and cork balls, wine glasses, sodium-browned photographs of long-dead dancers, tiny drawers filled with red sand-there is no apparent limit to the variety that found its way into Cornell's boxes, and any list of them begins to sound more like incantation than description...