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As memory serves me.(Ryan)
ACCORDING TO A RECENT article, scientists have discovered that the long-term memory span of a goldfish is eight seconds. There was no mention of the creature's short-term memory, nor of any possible utility which this profound research may promise. But--eight seconds? It seemed to be an improbably tiny segment of eternity, even for a humble fish.
But, observing the gorgeous tank of gold-fish in my dentist's waiting room (presumably to distract the patient's mind from what lies ahead), I noted, watch in hand, that each fish took between nine and fifteen seconds to make a circuit of the tank. Instead of a cruel monotony of captivity--la ronde des prisonniers--every ...
- Huck's river, Slip's memory; Camping on the Mississippi: River rats, tugboats...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Anderson, Dennis July 21, 1996 700+ words
Years ago at night on this river south of Wabasha an old boy named Slippery Bach and I would fish in the strong current beneath the moonlight. Slip was a river rat long removed from Milwaukee and he had come to Wabasha to live along and astride the river Twain wrote about, and gave to his boy Huck
- TRASH PICKUP; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; A jackpot of garbage; Volunteers worked on a...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Horgen, Tom July 12, 2005 700+ words
...and Corona beer bottles along the Mississippi River on Monday morning, 17-year-olds...among other things. "I think it has memory foam," he said, hoisting the mushy mattress onto his back. "Memory foam, as in it probably remembers...
- St. Louis-Area Homes, Businesses Brace for Mississippi River Floods.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 29, 2001 700+ words
...Tribune Business News Apr. 29--ST. LOUIS--As the worst Mississippi River flood waters in eight years reach near-record highs in...scenes of submerged houses along the riverbanks have rekindled memories from 1993 and raised questions about what has been done since...
- Flood tides: the gall of the wild. (social implications of the 1993 Mississippi...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Budiansky, Stephen July 19, 1993 700+ words
When the Mississippi River flooded in 1890, the paddle wheeler Charles D. Shaw promptly set...concrete and other human contrivances hold back both flood waters and memories. A hundred years ago, only the occasional dreamer like Henry David...
- A battle won against pollution; Twelve years ago, Minnesota was being sued to...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Rebuffoni, Dean May 18, 1996 700+ words
...in Minnesota - ending the dumping of raw sewage into the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities - was ceremoniously declared done Friday...in launching the program and that its successes honor his memory. But cleaning up the Mississippi really isn't a done deal...
- SLOW, STEADY PROGRESS AMID THE MUD PRAIRIE DU CHIEN RESIDENTS ARE BUSY...
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) May 27, 2001 700+ words
...April just the tops of street signs protruded from the worst Mississippi River flood in decades, schoolchildren march like ducklings behind...in carpets and basements and foundations, but is just a memory in the city's streets and parks. Down at the waterfront...
- New Orleans Architecture, volume 8, the University Section, Joseph Street to...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Mayor, Alfred November 1, 1997 700+ words
...and games that are the city's carefully cultivated image would do well to browse through the New Orleans Architecture series. What they learn will add a valuable dimension to their memories of a city that resembles no other in America.
- From the brink; Six years ago on July 4th, Naomi Gaines took her 14-month-old...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Brown, Curt July 5, 2009 700+ words
...Sometimes I just sit at my typewriter and shake. It's really painful to think about, because you not only live it in your memory, but you actually bring it to life and, re-reading it on paper, I experience it all over again." By all accounts, Gaines...