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...fancy Bangkok restaurant, a tureen of shark's fin soup will set you back as much as $250. But the real cost is to the environment, according to WildAid, a San Francisco-based environmental foundation. WildAid says the oceans' ecosystem is under threat from the annual slaughter of an estimated more than 50 million sharks, and the organization launched a print- and TV-ad campaign in mid-2001 that shows fishermen slicing fins off sharks and kicking them back into the sea to die. The ads also warn that fins might be contaminated with mercury. The campaign has been...
...Certainly not from Bangkok's Association of Shark Fin Restaurants, a group of about 30 Chinatown eateries. They're biting back with a $2.7 million lawsuit against WildAid and the local office of J. Walter Thompson, the New York City-based advertising agency that created the campaign for free. The charge: false claims by WildAid have caused their sales of shark dishes to drop by 50%. Last week in court, David Lau, secretary-general of the association, personally cross-examined Galster, alleging that the American conservationist had staged videos and faked photos of dying sharks. To TIME, he also claimed...
...decentralize France but is itself centralized. "We can't win if the party's organized from the top down," he says. "That's why the referendum on the constitution is key: you can't make Europe unless the people want it." Such chatter has contributed to a certain fin de règne feeling in Paris, even though Chirac has another three years in office. But reports of Chirac's political demise would be premature. Figures released last week show the French economy grew faster in the first quarter than it has since early 2002; if the trend persists, growth...
...cheese festivities. Roughly 30 mathematical types converge onto a long wooden table filled with four varieties of wine ranging from deep reds to mild whites, a number of varieties of cheese ranging from brie to gouda, herbed breads, and a multitude of exotic, imported beers, including La Fin du Monde, Trois Pistols and Buchesse de Bourgogne...
...first course is a yellow fin tuna tartar, made with center-cut tuna that is chopped with roasted shiitake mushrooms, truffle oil, red onion, chives and extra virgin olive oil. The result is far less complicated than the lengthy recipe would suggest: a dish of delicate simplicity, offset by French string beans breaded with a light sheen of tempura and resting on a pungent mustard sauce. The dish was designed to complement the young and brash “Bone Jolly” Gamay from El Dorado County...