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...disgustingly oversized, eerily suggesting that the fish had been raised in the warm nuclear waters off Three Mile Island. In addition, the salmon was extremely overcooked and the delicate flavor of the fish was overwhelmed by the dense forest of parsley, thyme and tarragon that covered its arid flesh. Your $16.95 might even have been better spent on that beautiful engagement ring from Judy?...

Author: By Anthony S. A. freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Industrialists of the World, Unite | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

Pumpkin pie With about half the calories and a lot less fat, pumpkin pie is a far better choice than pecan. Like other vegetables with orange flesh, pumpkins are packed with carotenoids. If you don't feel full before dessert, the fiber in pumpkin will do the trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuffing Yourself Healthy | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...eaters of smaller species, it takes several pounds of wild fish, ground up into meal, to yield 1 lb. of farmed salmon--an exchange that depletes the world supply of protein. The diet of farmed salmon lacks the small, pink-colored krill that their wild cousins eat, so the flesh of farmed fish is gray; a synthetic version of astaxanthin, a naturally occurring pigment, is added to the feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish Farming: Fishy Business | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...salmon. In 1989 Peter Mantle, who owns a wild salmon and sea-trout sport fishery in Delphi on the west coast of Ireland, discovered that young trout returning to his river from the ocean were covered with lice that were boring through the trouts' skin and feasting on their flesh. The sea lice were breeding near newly installed salmon farms in the inlet fed by his river. By the time the salmon farmers started dosing their pens with anti-sea-lice chemicals, the sea-trout fisheries of the west of Ireland were effectively dead. "Sea-trout fishing was sustainable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish Farming: Fishy Business | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...electric saws disturb contemplative mourners and the curious who venture there. What was once the Sari Club is now a vacant lot, the crater filled with offerings, notes, candles and bouquets. Burning incense barely conceals the acrid smell of burnt metal, but at least the odor of charred flesh has dissipated. A few doors down, souvenir stalls offer 50% off all merchandise, but no one is buying. Says shopkeeper Sita: "Nobody comes, and if they do, they aren't in the mood after seeing all this tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperately Seeking Survival | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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