In Russia, tea is prepared in tea rooms using a samovar, an urn of hot water.

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These soothsayers read the tea leaves using metrics like interest rates, capital expenditures, unemployment and stock market reactions.

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From August 8-18th, in this ingenious 30-city social experiment, Honest Tea was using the honor system to see which city had the most honest people.

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Companies have claimed that DMAA is a natural dietary ingredient from the geranium plant, previously used in tea infusions and from other studies using geranium oil.

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Politically inclined grass-roots activism on both the right and left is alive and well on Meetup in the thriving number of tea party and Occupy Wall Street groups using the site.

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Mod Mama claims Tea Collection sales have jumped 20% since using Revel Touch.

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Macha is a suspension of microscopic tea particles, which gave him the idea of manufacturing using a suspension of particles in water, he says.

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Even though it is pretty clear that the shooter was not a Tea Party fanatic, it is becoming clear that some commentators are using the shooting as a pretext to further marginalize ideas with which they disagree.

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Of course if Windows isn't your cup of tea, then you can also install Microsoft's DOS on your Mac using Virtual PC.

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