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Yerba mate, a rain-forest plant native to South America, has long been brewed there as an alternative to tea and coffee. Mate sippers credit the green tea-like drink, which has less caffeine than coffee, with fighting fatigue, aiding digestion and helping defog the brain. Now yerba mate, in flavors like orange blossom and mint, is showing up in the U.S. in specialty teas, chocolates and bottled drinks. The grassy-tasting plant has been added to two varieties of SmartChocolate bars, a new raspberry flavor of Vitaminwater called Determination, and Zygo, a peach-infused vodka. Enthusiasts claim the plant...
...that occurred years before they were born, never letting a technicality that slight exclude them from an argument as rich as the "long count" fight of 1927. Failing to withdraw to a neutral corner, as a new rule required after knockdowns, Dempsey inadvertently allowed Tunney perhaps 14 seconds to defog his head in the seventh round and go on to outpoint Jack for a second time. "The best thing that ever happened to both of us was the long count," Dempsey said a few years ago. "Half the people thought he won, the other half thought I won. They...
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