Future forestry concessionaires will be obliged to attach a bar code to each tree they fell (and the stumps they come from).

ECONOMIST: Forestry

It was in the front bar of the Old Green Tree, a pub in Bath.

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But the focal point of the room is a tall, single-paned modernist window above the bar that perfectly frames the changing leaves of a tree outside, and the dishes that give at least the impression of lightness are truly memorable.

NEWYORKER: Allswell

In February international publicity forced a hotel, the Mangrove Tree Resort World in Hainan, a southern vacation island, to close a casino bar for guests that paid out winnings in tokens that could be redeemed for hotel rooms and spent in resort shops.

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