The cast gathered on the back porch for Ms. Barre’s precurtain notes: Think about your first line.

Strigolactones are produced by the non-mycorrhizal plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Westwood 2000; Goldwasser and Yoder 2001), and plant mutants defective for strigolactone production have not yet been obtained.

Nearly half of those in status zero have no qualifications and only 37 percent have GCSEs or above.

With the decline of water travel, Manhattan turned increasingly in on itself, looking away from dilapidated piers and water-hugging industrial areas — its manufactories, its markets and its abattoirs — to a glorious new interior asset, Central Park, which became and remains the focus of public life.