Newspaper Log- Wednesday April 21st

Unfortunately, another boring day to read the paper , in my opinion. Nothing in the national or international section striked me as fun and exciting. I did see that Britain is starting to open up airports again, since the dust and weather is clearing up from the volcano. In the business section, I read two articles.

The first is about how the F.D.A. is reducing the amount of salt in foods. The F.D.A. wants to make it known that the high levels of sodium in food are unhealthy and dangerous. A crazy fact that the article provides is that just by cutting back on salt in foods, the F.D.A. could be preventing 100,000 deaths a year. That is quite a lot. Since there is currently no limit on how much salt can be put in food, that is what the F.D.A. is trying to control. I personally think this might be a good idea. Too much salt is pretty harmful.

The last article I read, I looked at because it was about Delta and how they are continuing to lose money. My grandfather used to fly for Delta and a couple of years ago, lost a good chunk of his pension because Delta was doing so poorly. I read in the article that, unfortunately, Delta lost $256 million for the quarter. Good news though, is that Delta is benefiting from its merge with Northwest Airlines and this has caused other airlines to think about merging as well.