Hard rice and salt water had made him scrawny and thin-haired by his 40s.

ECONOMIST: Nguyen Chi Thien

After three martinis my friend switches to a local brew of Budweiser, salt and a hard-boiled egg plopped in a glass.

FORBES: Digital Rules

But not even the most die-hard Aussie would have expected any success in Salt Lake City.

BBC: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

You would be hard pressed to ever use a whole teaspoon of salt on a single serving of food or to get that many grams of fat onto your salad.

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For some, that is another reason to take this first estimate with an extra dose of salt: service sector output is especially hard to measure accurately, even without all these special factors being thrown into the mix.

BBC: A special recovery

Since then, each item had engraved itself in my memory, frozen in time: a bag of dried chickpeas, a cannister of salt, a withered Fuji apple, and the rock-hard stump of a baguette.

NEWYORKER: Sweetheart Sorrow

The recession a few years ago hit the trucking industry particularly hard, so we should take those outsized profit gains with a bit of salt.

FORBES: Connect

Hard questions are being asked by those who stand to lose almost as much as Salt Lake if this mess isn't cleaned up.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

Have you ever been playing around with molten metal salt, when you accidentally created hollow, soft-shelled particles that could one day increase hard disk storage or power future QLED displays?

ENGADGET: Researchers stumble onto 'lava' generated quantum dots, could power future peripherals