Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bear the names of Kennedys who died violently-and a bizarre menagerie was never dull. A Kennedy pet census once counted two horses, four ponies, one burro, two angora goats, three dogs, three geese, two cockatoos, one cat, one guinea pig, 40 rabbits, one turtle, one alligator turtle, 22 goldfish, 15 Hungarian pigeons and five chickens. A sea lion named "Sandy" was regretfully banished after it began chasing guests. Ethel, now 40, never quite lost her sense of wonder at being married to Bobby Kennedy. Their affection was tender, gay and companionable, and though she is terrified of airplanes...
Along the third base line traffic was light to moderate around the McCarthy headquarters. Further up the line draft information was being dispensed and Resistance buttons sold indescriminately. Peace Pets were also on display: a kitty-litter of (predictably) kittens, a dozen dogs, one waterlogged turtle, two gross of goldfish, and a dove were up for grabs...
...reported. When a normally lefthanded rat was forced to learn to use his right paw to get food out of a tube, cells in the most highly developed part of the brain (the cortex) produced a special kind of RNA as well as proteins. A similar thing happened in goldfish that were forced to learn a new kind of swimming by having buoyant plastic foam stuck under their chins by Dr. Victor Shashoua of M.I.T. Fish that Dr. Shashoua made work just as hard swimming against a current, but without learning anything new, did not produce extra...
...ability to remember a poem learned in grammar school and his inability, for the life of him, to remember the name of the fellow he met at lunch yesterday. Sweden's Dr. Hydén felt that the creation of protein (as in pigeons, rats and goldfish) is essential to man's formation of long-term memories. Human brain cells, said Hydén, seldom divide and replace themselves as do most other cells in the body. The neurons that a child has at six years must last him a lifetime. As he ages, some of them become...
...subtly prods the children to teach one another. To act out childhood fantasies, they create weird costumes and run off in them to Central Park, where, as one student wrote in his daily journal, he simply "spied on people." One classroom contains eight doves, a skink, boa constrictor, canary, goldfish, turtles and families of gerbils and mice. The mating habits of a pair of doves, Hawk and Paloma, led to a highly explicit discussion of reproduction, all duly recorded in a scrapbook labeled the "Dove Book." The animals provide a common community of interest-and creating a community...