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...followed; trails became roads, and settlements grew beside them. When the human menu shifted from salt-rich game to cereals, more salt was needed to supplement the diet. But the underground deposits were beyond reach, and the salt sprinkled over the surface was insufficient. Scarcity kept the mineral precious. As civilization spread, salt became one of the world's principal trading commodities...
...Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the Via Salaria, the salt route, over which Roman soldiers marched and merchants drove oxcarts full of the precious crystals up the Tiber from the salt pans at Ostia. A soldier's pay-consisting in part of salt-came to be known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word salary. A soldier's salary was cut if he "was not worth his salt," a phrase that...
...movie, warns the U S officials in Chile, "I just thank God we still live in a country where people like you can still be put in jail," we detect more than a note of irony. And we wonder what it is that protects our precious rights, that puts gasoline in our tanks and food in our cupboards. To what extent do things that make our lives pleasant rely upon making others 'lives unpleasant? It is a question that we all, liberal and conservative alike, must answer
Thus, I had no good excuse for beginning my search for part-time employment last summer in the industrial wasteland of Detroit by culling want ads in June. Having blown the chance to wallow in opportunities offered by Harvard's precious career services office, I began sifting through offers at the Fuller Brush Company and several short-order establishments. Then something caught my eye: "Opening for lively, articulate people to sell Time-Life book series by phone...
Money hassles were commonplace; just because Alex's was the cheapest joint on the pavilion everyone and his nagging kids assumed we wanted to rob them of precious pennies. But after wrangling with the manager--who would leave to add up all of the employee's money--disgruntled customers usually sauntered away, comparing Alex to various unflattering chicken parts...