If you feel crushed by the legal system, or by faceless, life-sucking bureaucracy in general, you are a living embodiment of the primary theme of Bleak House, whose protagonists, awaiting the disposition of a tangled will, find any realistic hopes and dreams permanently curtailed.

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They are present throughout the Yucatan and some have been developed into near-theme parks, where you pay a substantial admission price and there are vehicles, boats, zip lines and more.

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So you can see there are various ideas going around this business of having a second chamber but the common theme is that they want people from national governments, national parliaments, to be involved.

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There are a few variations on this theme but largely, the gist is that they want you to confirm your tax identification number.

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And there are plenty of variations on the theme: A version of the Levitron called "Floating Ideas" gives you a base over which you can float a variety of objects, including models of the space shuttle, a VW Beetle and a picture frame.

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