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...Caviar has always been a luxury [and] the booming demand has gone hand in hand with a lot more money [being] around in Britain," said Lucie Herring, public relations manager for Caviar House-Prunier. "It was the preserve of the old rich, like Russians, but now with City boys [those employed in London's financial district] coming in, the new rich...
...claim that a caviar's quality can be tested by placing a little between thumb and forefinger. Once eaten, good eggs will leave no residue or fishy smell. "The taste is not the same - black market tell-tale signs are that it's oily and smells of fish," adds Herring...
...buoyed the Baltic Sea region, an area that comprises about 70 million people living in nine countries bordering the sea. Established players like Sweden and Finland are pairing up with emerging economies (and recent E.U. inductees) like Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia to transform a region once better known for herring, bad weather and cold war naval maneuvers into a global economic dynamo. "It's a hot spot for growth," says Peter Egardt, a Swede who heads the Business Advisory Council at the intergovernmental Council of Baltic Sea States...
...guise of a broad education is just a red herring, if not a façade for promoting the terrorist agenda. We are in a state of war. We need to focus on the problem at hand: eradicating the unreasonable, ungodly, democracy-hating savages from the face of this Earth. These people do not listen to reason—they are religious extremists who only understand hatred. We have to fight fire with fire—not with a required half-course in each of seven unique fields...
...Anna has burning pains in her legs, pain around her hips and some low back pain. The crucial part of her story, for me, is that her pain is particularly bad when she lies in bed at night. On X-rays she has a little hip arthritis (a red herring) and quite a bit more spinal stenosis - a narrowing of the passages through which the nerves go from the spine to the legs...