Predictably, pain-free financing means that to most French patients the cost of their treatment is irrelevant, while they lead the world in the number of times they go into hospital, and swallow more pills than any other nation on earth, bar the Japanese.

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The Monte Carlo location is larger, with a 1200 square foot bar whose ice weighs in at 80 tons, and it claims to be the second largest ice bar on earth.

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If you want to recreate a decadent Diamond Jim Brady moment and order platter after platter with bottle after bottle of bubbly, there is no place on earth better suited for the task than The Oyster Bar.

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Commercial preparations of diatomaceous earth did as well as the organophosphate in all cases bar one (a beetle called the lesser grain borer in sorghum).

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At the inn, soft lighting, dark wood, earth-toned upholstery and beaten metal adorn the guest rooms, lobby and bar area, while the pockmarked cement in the front entryway emulates ancient flagstone.

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That dream is why someone who began by sweeping the floors of his father's Cincinnati bar can preside as speaker of the House in the greatest nation on Earth.

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