Many co-working spaces offer free coffee, tea, and water, some offer free wine and beer around closing time, and others are stocked with free snacks.

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American tea-meisters now travel the world seeking the best-nurtured, hand-harvested, pesticide-free leaves of the tea plant.

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Anyone who sends a tweet to the machine while standing in front of it will receive a free sample of BOS Ice Tea, a popular organic beverage made in South Africa from Rooibos, an indigenous plant which locals have used to make traditional tea for hundreds of years.

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Some patrons show up with a tea bag for a free hot-water refill or quietly unwrap homemade sandwiches, he says.

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Constitutional populists, like the Tea Party Patriots, demand a return to free market principles to create jobs.

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Apparently, tea party thinking does not value our tradition of free expression of ideas as the means to reach better results.

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When the resort opened back in 1997 there was muttering from rock art enthusiasts, who had previously enjoyed free run of the neglected farmland here that once grew grapefruit, oranges and rooibos tea.

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And of eight tea party Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate, only two mention support for free trade on their websites.

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