Should a bottle of memory pills appear on your nightstand one day, a heap of credit will go to Tully and Kandel, with an assist from two of God's lowliest creatures: the fruit fly and the sea slug.

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It was created in the 1930s from a huge slag heap resulting from one of the largest iron and steelworks in Europe.

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Buenos Aires is famous for having the best collection of steakhouses on earth, and this is near the top of the heap, the only one specializing in selling beef from a variety of Argentinean breeds, combing all the traditional elements of Argentinean parillada cooking over a wood burning fire with more upscale touches and a wonderful list of the best wines of Argentina.

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Nearly every country at one point was on top of the heap, and all have rich heritages.

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About one million cubic metres of collapsed spoil heap has to be removed before a railway line can be repaired, Network Rail has said.

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About one million cubic metres of a collapsed spoil heap at Hatfield Colliery, South Yorkshire, pushed the track upwards forcing the line to shut.

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The main reason poor people are stressed is that they are at the bottom of the social heap as well as the financial one.

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We looked at this huge heap of orders or reservations and worked our way down and one day we woke up and it was gone: Now what do we do?

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In one fell move, Rudolph goes from the bottom of the pile to the top of the heap, from being a teased and ridiculed outcast to having a lock on the most coveted and prestigious job on the toy delivery team.

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