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...dollop of sour cream. But purists insist that the best way to eat beluga caviar is straight off the spoon, followed by a shot of vodka or a sip of ice-cold champagne. For those who can afford to shell out $100 or more an ounce, these precious salted sturgeon eggs are a taste of what life was like for the Russian czars and czarinas who feasted regularly on fine caviar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beluga Blues | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...third in the 1000 while not competing in the 500, opting instead to simply work herself back into shape against Columbia. White should be called up to Cambridge in time for Saturday’s meet against Penn. Harvard swimming is expected to send freshman butterfly specialist Jane Sturgeon, who has a partially torn rotator cuff, down to the minors to open up a roster spot...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: This Sinking Ship Could Use Bailout | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...main restaurant at the National Hotel is traditionally Russian, with suckling pig, sturgeon, and pike perch in cream on the menu. The bonus: a lovely Kremlin view. (The diner with the shaved head and the well-cut suit, attended by aides and decorative young women, is a prominent figure in an ultranationalist political party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Moscow Eats | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...straightforward. Two years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a "biological opinion," urging the Army Corps of Engineers, which regulates the water, to change the way it runs the dams, warning that the steady flow threatens three endangered species: the piping plover, least tern and pallid sturgeon, a long-snouted behemoth that looks like a refugee from the Jurassic period. A higher spring flow would signal the sturgeon to spawn and would provide food; the piping plover would find hospitable nesting ground on sandbars carved out by the rushing current. A summer drawdown would create shallows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fight over Big Muddy's Flow | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Caviar, experts say, should always be judged by quality and taste, not price. One price that would be too high to pay, though, would be the extinction of the sturgeon, considered the world's most valuable wildlife resource...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Gold Comeback | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

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