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...surface of the statue. When the salts crystallize again, they crack pores within the stone. In recent years, scientists agree, the salt damage has been accelerated by the Aswan High Dam, more than 400 miles upriver. The new dam has raised the water table throughout the Nile Valley. Another villain has been the high-salt mortar used to restore the flaking monument. "Walking on top of the Sphinx in the morning," says Gauri, "you can hear the stones popping like potato chips...
...praised for your excellent article "Salt: A New Villain?" [March 15], which brings to the attention of your readers the relationship between high blood pressure and the use of salt. However, I would like to mention that Dr. Walter Kempner of Duke University School of Medicine introduced a severe low-salt diet, the Kempner Rice and Fruit Diet, in 1941 for the treatment of hypertension. This regime has the lowest salt content of any diet. His knowledge contributed to one of the greatest breakthroughs in the treatment of hypertension in our history, and to a dramatic decrease in the incidence...
...quite literally with some rarefied leather and chain-mail combos that looked like rough-trade rigging that Prince Valiant might have worn to go cruising. Mariuccia Mandelli, who designs for Krizia, sent finlike flounces cascading all over suits and dresses-something, perhaps, for the spouse of Jaws' elasmobranch villain to slip into for the Oscars. There were the usual parades of plushy furs by Fendi and dazzling knitwear by Missoni, but even Gianfranco Ferré, who made the week's best showing with a severely drafted, almost architectural collection, took honors by default...
...perils of runaway prices, workers everywhere now agonize over losing their jobs. A New York Times/CBS News poll published last week found that 32% of those questioned regarded unemployment as the most serious problem currently facing the country, vs. only 15% who saw inflation as the No. 1 villain. Even so, the public commitment to battling inflation remains astonishingly high. In the same poll, respondents voted 53% to 32% to cancel the 10% cut in income tax rates already enacted to take effect July 1 if that should be necessary to reduce the gargantuan budget deficits that might reignite inflation...
...chosen as the fall guy? If Mitchell was involved, the scandal would be uncontainable. John Mitchell, that epitome of loyalty, would never have acted without at least believing that he was carrying out presidential wishes. Whatever hypothesis one considered-Garment's, which saw Colson as the chief villain with Haldeman and Ehrlichman in supporting roles, or Ehrlichman's, apparently placing the blame on Mitchell-Watergate was bound to rock the nation. It simply was not credible, least of all to those of us who knew how the White House operated, that Nixon's paladins had acted totally...