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...challenge was to rejuvenate a London institution so that today's crowd would be lured in for traditional British dishes like stargazy pie, featuring pilchard heads poking out through pastry. Tony Blair and Prince Charles' wife Camilla have already dined there (although not together). Visual attractions include a glittering crustacean bar and art by names including Gary Hume. But overall, the look is of elegant comfort. As for where to sit, lunchtime power brokers prefer center tables. 20 Mount Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DINING OUT: London Calling, Again | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...Predictably, the European Union ignored Canada and continued to fish just outside of the 200-mile limit. The EU threatened to send warships to protect its interests. Diplomatic negotations were halted. And meanwhile, turbot go the way of other species: cod populations have been reduced by 99 per cent, pilchard and polar cod by 94 per cent, and haddock by more than 80 per cent since the mid-1970s...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Of Fish and Politics | 4/8/1995 | See Source »

...them with a living as well. Says Paul Vincent, editor of the local Namib Times: "Think how rich we could be if we could get into the business of exporting sand." As it is, the town's principal source of revenue, fishing, is slowly dying. Production of processed pilchard at Walvis Bay canneries has slumped from 1.5 million tons ten years ago to 45,000 tons now, either because of overfishing or ecological changes in the South Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Walvis Bay: Odd Enclave | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Semolina (16) pilchard (17) climbing up the Eiffel Tower. (18) Elementary penguin (19) singing Hare Krishna man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Goo Goo Goo Joob | 12/14/1967 | See Source »

Samaritan. In Toledo, a bartender friend kindly bailed out the Rev. Howard B. Pilchard, of the Anti-Saloon League, who had been arrested for drunken driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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