Word: sturgeon
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...hedge-fund yuppies have sent demand soaring for "black gold," with top varieties such as Beluga now selling for over $3,000 a kilo, whilst the rarest varieties, such as Almas ($50,000 per kilo), whose eggs are white, have a four-year waiting list. The soaring demand for sturgeon roe has created lucrative opportunities for "caviar cowboys," who sell illegally smuggled caviar to unscrupulous chefs willing to turn a blind...
...proceeded to excoriate the plump party leaders and condemn "our tables groaning with sturgeon and caviar" bought at special stores closed to ordinary citizens. He ended by asking to be relieved of his duties, a favor the Party eventually granted by firing him from the Politburo early in 1988. To Yeltsin, it seemed to be the end of his career. "Perhaps the hardest period of my whole life was after my expulsion from the Politburo," he later wrote. "Gorbachev didn't send me into Siberian exile or to some far-flung foreign country; he put me in charge of construction...
...Cowboys in Love Your story amply addressed straight people's insecurities about Brokeback Mountain, but you ought to have mentioned that the movie never would have been made without decades of equal-rights activism by gay men and lesbians. John Olski Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin...
Your story amply addressed straight people's insecurities about Brokeback Mountain, but you ought to have mentioned that the movie never would have been made without decades of equal-rights activism by gay men and lesbians. JOHN OLSKI Sturgeon...
...HALTED. The global trade in STURGEON CAVIAR; by the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES); in Geneva. CITES, which sets annual limits for caviar-exporting countries, has refused to announce quotas for 2006, effectively prohibiting the trade. Sturgeon populations in the Caspian sea region, which produces most of the world's caviar, are believed to have fallen 90% in the past 30 years. Two previous bans, in 2001 and 2002, failed to reverse the decline...