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Hefty too: up to 2,200 Ibs. of blubbery bulk. But while Cleveland hailed from New Jersey, the manatee is a native of warmer climes: the rivers of West Africa, the Amazon basin, the shores of the Caribbean, and the coasts of Florida. Now the gentle and once plentiful creature is in serious danger of extinction. In Africa and South America, tribesmen have hunted it for its delectable meat-not unlike veal-as well as its fat and oil, leathery skin and ivory-like bone. In Florida, only some 1,000 remain, and the death rate appears to be exceeding...
Occasionally, patients circumvent this problem, more or less, by marrying. Married couples get to move into larger living quarters, full-sized apartments with kitchens and dining rooms. In contrast, Tony's simple square space with wash basin in one corner and bed in another hardly allow room for a lively jitterbug. Still he insists the dormitory is perfectly adequate for his needs, or at least sufficient enough to forestall his planning a wedding in the near future merely to raise his standard of living...
...brought back. The Amir, in ordering their punishment, said that, as the man was so fond of the woman, he should have her as completely as was possible. So the woman was thrown alive into a huge cauldron of boiling water, and boiled down to soup, and a basin of this soup was given to the man, who was forced to drink it, and after drinking it he was hanged. In this case the Amir's object was to punish, not only in this life, but in the next, for a cannibal cannot enjoy the delights of Paradise as depicted...
...Russia's benefactor.) The Western powers vied with one another to give economic and diplomatic support to the Soviet regime, which could not have survived without this aid. Europe took no notice of the fact that some 6 million people in the Ukraine and the Kuban River basin had died of hunger...
...dedicated; the day was officially proclaimed Tennessee Williams Day. His previously unproduced play, Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?, was given its world premiere. After the curtain dropped, a bash ensued in the theater lobby, complete with torrents of champagne and the sound of jazz classics rendered by the Basin Street Band, flown in from New Orleans for the occasion. A man without peer among living dramatists deserves no less, and he was a warm and affable guest of honor...