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Plenty of men and women come to Broadway bearing checkbooks. Bumptious or diffident, they hover on the fringe for a season or two. They go over the bumps and to the cleaners and back to their natural habitat, taking with them some deductible losses and dinner conversation. Roger Stevens
...pages of the Sydney Morning Herald, a characteristic Muggeridge salvo: "Superficially, Australia is very British, indeed-in fact, I should say decidedly more British than Britain is. It constitutes a kind of National Park in which extinct British species can be seen living in their natural habitat. But I cannot help thinking that Australia's Britishness belongs more to a dream than to reality...
Live Food. Back at West Burleigh, Fleay began the delicate job of conditioning the platypuses for life in The Bronx. They were installed in a Fleay-designed platypusary with a water tank and grass-lined burrows that simulated as closely as possible their natural habitat. Every afternoon Fleay took them from the burrows and put them in the tank. He encouraged visitors ("It helps them get accustomed to people and noise...
Plague is caused by a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, whose natural habitat is the rat. Fleas carry it from rats to humans. The disease, called bubonic when it affects the lymph nodes, pneumonic when it attacks the lungs, used to be 90% fatal; nowadays antibiotics and sulfa drugs can defeat it in 90% of cases, and widespread warfare against rats and fleas in underprivileged areas helps prevent outbreaks...
...dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music Man is not pure cream, only nice, fresh half-and-half. But it particularly catches the jubilant oldtime energy of a small-town jamboree-an energy whose modern habitat may well be the musi-comedy stage...