During his playing days, John Elway once described his existence in Denver as living in a fish bowl.

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About 60 firefighters were called to The Fish Bowl store in Fulham in the early hours of Monday.

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That probably comes as no consolation to your children if their guppies jump out of their fish bowl.

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Judging from Microsoft's Fish Bowl HTML5 benchmark, we're looking at a gain of 50 percent -- and yes, that's pretty impressive.

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One of the buildings here was called the Fish Bowl because it was always flooded. (Laughter.) In one survey, only a third of all students said they felt safe at school.

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Living in a media fish bowl, even small incidents can balloon into a crisis, and in an Internet age, with information spreading at warp speed, it is wiser to quickly eliminate the threat of controversy.

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As for getting non- geo-promiscuous customers to keep coming back, I guess businesses will have to keep up the ole put-your-business-card-in-the-fish-bowl-to-win-free-stuff trick.

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Ally felt like a fish in a bowl, helpless to escape being seen.

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