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Arriving at Loyola University in Chicago for a "rap session," the silver-haired Democrat found that his audience had been lured away by a campus goldfish-swallowing contest. "The student chairman was very apologetic," says Pucinski, "and we went to the contest to announce that I was there." Upon his appearance, the students began chanting, "Eat a fish! Eat a fish!" Never one to ignore an opening, Pooch downed one of the little wrigglers. "A goldfish is sort of like a martini," said Pucinski later, swallowing hard. "After the first one, they're not bad. Once...
There was a lot to look at-and nibble on-in the kitchen of the Peking Hotel, an immaculate, white-tiled temple of taste employing 115 cooks and helpers. Sniffing and sampling as she went, she paused over the array of delicacies-goldfish in white sauce, egg rolls rampant on a field of seaweed, steamed baby bird couchant on clamshell pastry-and with the judicious eye of a diner selecting one from Column A and one from Column B. In the vegetable carving room, where chefs sculpted 6-ft. radishes, turnips, carrots and sugar beets into decorative flowers, she picked...
...articles and lectures, he took pains to stress that she could watch everything that was taking place in the room about her, and that she was frequently taken out for cuddling and play. To many people, however, the air box sounded and looked like an atrocious human goldfish bowl...
...fishbowl in the place. We wanted to be known as a tough outfit: if anybody was slow in paying, we told him we'd stick his hand in the fishbowl. What do you think happened? The fish bit. We used to feed the thing a dozen live goldfish...
...HYDÉN'S RAT experiments demonstrated, RNA itself does not store memories; instead, it may play an intermediary role, stimulating the brain to produce proteins that are perhaps the actual repositories of memory. In one experiment inspired by that theory, University of Michigan Biochemist Bernard Agranoff taught goldfish to swim over a barrier, then injected them with puromycin, an antibiotic that prevents protein synthesis. When the injection was given hours after learning, it had no effect, suggesting that memory proteins had already formed. Injected just before or just after training, the drug prevented learning...