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Rumor has it that the Harvard’s men’s crew teams tried to make fish tanks out of the women’s boathouse showers on two consecutive nights last week. The heavyweights’ attempt apparently resulted in the deaths of over 100 goldfish, while the lightweights’—which used plastic bags to contain the fish—preserved some of them until morning. The two events mark a surge in prank wars between the Harvard and Radcliffe teams that date back to 1972. But in the past year, these pranks...
...into a telephone booth. You put the heaviest guy on the bottom and the lighter guys piled in on top of him. I suspect we knocked over a few telephone booths that way,” he says. “That was one activity. I suspect that eating goldfish was another...
...Cabot residents eat their goldfish and Dunster-ites pick up moose droppings, Quincy kids have started to feel a bit left out. To remedy their sadness, the Quincy HoCo launched a cutthroat search for a house mascot of their own last month...
...shocked at the thought of minnows, crawfish and goldfish wasting their lives away as a product for sale in vending machines [AMERICAN SCENE, Oct. 21]. Has technology brought us to the point where we now equate living things with inanimate objects like potato chips and canned soda? Helene Starr Miami Criminal Traits...
...lobbying group, the Grocery Manufacturers of America, denies that claim, saying there's no definitive data linking advertising to obesity.) Another issue: that the lines between advertising, entertainment and educational materials are increasingly blurring, as you may have noticed if you have seen schooling materials like the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Counting Fun book or toys like the Play-Doh George Foreman Grill. "It's unfair. Children don't even know they're being advertised to," says Susan Linn, author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood...