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...based largely on fish, pickled vegetables and soy sauce (1,029 mg sodium per tablespoon), the average Japanese citizen consumes nearly three teaspoons of salt a day. In the northern agricultural provinces, where salt is still widely used as a preservative, six teaspoons or more a day is not uncommon. And what is probably the highest sodium diet in the world coincides with what seems to be the world's highest rate of hypertension; in some villages fully 40% of the residents have high blood pressure. No national statistic for hypertension is available for Japan as a whole...
...treatment that Brancato--a research technician at Harvard's museum of Comparative Zoology--received at the Cambridge agency, located at 1695 Mass Ave., was not uncommon. Approximately 30 recent customer complaints resulted last week in a suit by the state Attorney General's office against the firm and its president, Robert J. Carye...
...runner of mountain climber--or anyone who does things merely because they are there--Simpiro's account offers uncommon insight into the question of what motivates the endurance athlete. The sympathetic, curious reader may learn just a bit about how such people think. But to other readers, this 80-day trek that may have been completed by airplane in a few hours may seem nothing but craziness...
Unusual times-demand uncommon actions: Democrat Roosevelt in the '30s, Republican Reagan...
...appears frozen in time, an icy world surrounded by frigid seas where winds of 100 m.p.h. are not uncommon. No human is known to have set foot upon it until the 19th century, and even today it exposes unwary travelers to the greatest dangers. Temperatures regularly plunge to -100° F or below. Giant crevasses can open in the ice, swallowing men and machines. Sudden storms often blend ground and sky into one snowy blur that hopelessly disorients the most skilled aviators...