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...members of the Porcellian thrive on a substitute world of their own. Pictures of famous graduates adorn their walls (Oliver Wendell Holmes is prominently displayed). The rooms are furnished with gifts from former members, and each new sophomore class must memorize which graduate donated which table or chair...
...lemony Siamese sunlight, rice, corn and coconut palms flourish, as do 28 kinds of bananas and 750 varieties of orchids. In the north, worker-elephants still pull the great teak logs from the forest with an efficiency no machine yet invented can match; mangoes, sugar and rubber plants thrive in the south. Along the great, glittering emerald rice fields of the fertile, canal-veined central plain where over a third of the 30 million Thais live, smiling, polygamous peasants lounge in boxy teakwood houses on stilts. Tethered beneath is a sinewy water buffalo, and tied atop is a television antenna...
...upper trunk and head. These myriad, tiny glands are easily blocked by hardened sebum, which creates a blackhead. In its efforts to get rid of this plug, the body starts the inflammatory process, causing a pimple. Inside the pimple are blood and lymph fluids in which bacteria thrive, creating a pustule similar to a small boil. At the edges of big pustules, bacterial poisons kill skin cells and leave disfiguring scars...
Pets that are fun to play with, easy to care for and that thrive in captivity are hard to come by. For the past decade, the furry favorite has been the hamster, but it tends to be neurotic, eat its young and bite the hand that feeds it. Now another member of the rodent family has arrived on the scene, warming children's hands and parents' hearts wherever its fuzzy face appears...
CACTUS FLOWER. France is fertile soil for sex farces, and Director Abe Burrows has deftly pruned this recent sprout to make it thrive in the Broadway landscape. Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson reap a rich harvest of giggles and guffaws...