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...expect it. A dollop of cottage cheese, for instance, can pack twice as much of the mineral as a palmful of salted peanuts. Plus, as much as 75% of Americans' sodium intake comes from processed foods like canned soup and baking mixes--which means you could easily blow past your daily allotment without ever picking up the saltshaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: Salt in U.S. Food | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...course, am itching to try it, but first Cue takes me through the iBook application and its online store. There has been much talk of the iPad's dealing a death blow to Amazon's Kindle reader; publishers, it seems, have long yearned to escape from Amazon's tough control over pricing. I asked John Makinson, chairman and chief executive of Penguin, why he's so keen on the iPad. He told me he likes the fact that "it gives control back to us and allows us to discover how the market is developing. Frankly, when I saw the iPad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

Then there was my high school graduation. After I received my diploma, the Head of School pulled me over for a hug. As he did so, he delivered the ultimate blow to my emotional solar plexus, revealing he knew nothing whatsoever about me: “You’re a special person, Henrietta...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What’s in a Name? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

More than a year into President Obama's Administration - and three months after the Nigerian underwear bomber failed in his attempt to blow a U.S. airliner out of the sky over Detroit - the nation still doesn't have a top cop at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Why is the Administration having such a tough time filling this vital slot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel Snafu: The Stumbling Search for a TSA Chief | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...gosh, I hope some idiot calling himself a patriot didn't do this." She admits that her own unarmed group, the Sons of Liberty, had attracted a "loose cannon," a young man who tried to join last summer. "He was saying things like, 'We ought to blow up the federal building,' "she recalls. The Sons of Liberty promptly tossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat from the Patriot Movement | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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