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habitat
Place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, incl. all living and nonliving factors or conditions of the surrounding environment. A host organism inhabited by parasites is as much a habitat as a place on land such as a grove of trees or an aquatic locality such as a small pond. "Microhabitat" refers to the conditions and organisms in the immediate vicinity of a plant or animal.


Habima
(Hebrew: "Stage") Hebrew theater company. Organized in Poland in 1912, it was reestablished in 1917 in Moscow, where it was encouraged by K. Stanislavsky. Habima's production of The Dybbuk (1922) established it as a company of high artistic merit, and it became affiliated with the Moscow Art Theatre. After producing The Golem (1925), the group toured Europe and the U.S. In 1931 most of the group moved to Tel Aviv, where they presented Yiddish and biblical dramas and a repertory of Israeli, classical, and contemporary foreign plays. In 1958 it became the National Theatre of Israel.


habit
In psychology, any regularly repeated behavior that requires little or no thought and is learned rather than innate. Some habits (e.g., tying a shoelace) may conserve higher mental processes for more demanding tasks, but others promote behavioral inflexibility or are unhealthy. Five methods are commonly used to break unwanted habits: replacing the old response with a new one, repeating the behavior until it becomes unpleasant, separating the individual from the stimulus that prompts the response, habituation, and punishment.


Hainan
Province (pop., 1996 est.: 7,240,000) and island of China. The province also includes the Paracel and Spratly islands. It is located in the S. China Sea, separated from Guangdong by a narrow strait. The southernmost province of China and the smallest, it was for centuries part of Guangdong province; it became a separate province in 1988. Its capital is Haikou. Under Chinese rule since the 2nd cent. BC, it was not closely controlled until the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907). Chinese began settling the island in 12-13th cent., gradually forcing the indigenous peoples into the interior. Occupied by the Japanese 1939-45, it came under Communist control in 1950. Although the government has tried to stimulate economic development there, it is one of China's less prosperous regions.

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