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...Wrestling with the challenge of creating a big enough space amid spatial and monetary restrictions, Endoh struck on the idea of using a balloon shape for the building. The result: a surprisingly spacious two-family house with just 335 sq. ft. of floor space...
...Just kill people to the north," a sergeant bellows. "Light him up," cries another soldier as a gunman approaches. On Nov. 17, even as Representative John Murtha was stirring debate on Capitol Hill by calling for an immediate redeployment of U.S. troops, the young soldiers of Blue Platoon were amid a citywide battle that revealed just how hard it will be to pull U.S. troops out soon...
...Amid the calamities and diseases that this desperate world is experiencing, TIME's Global Health heroes have worked with sincere compassion and without expecting something in return. The 18 you selected, and surely many others who were not mentioned, have demonstrated that the poor can still hope to see improvement in their lives. TIME has shown that journalism can make a difference in the effort to leave our children a world worth living in. Widhyawati Ambara Jakarta...
...snazzy international restaurant on the Jumbo's uppermost level. Operated by the same team behind the almost-as-iconic Caf? Deco restaurant atop Victoria Peak, the new venue provides the best excuse in years for a trip to the Jumbo's anchorage in Aberdeen Harbour. Amid a breezy alfresco setting (choose from tables, sofas and even day beds), visitors can dine on cosmopolitan bistro fare?think steaks, sushi, tandoori dishes and Thai curries?while gazing on the luxury yachts and fishing boats bobbing in the water below. And while a good deal of the original fittings have been left intact...
...France for decades - the need to send money home. Similar stories swell the immigrant population in Paris and other cities across France, and are multiplied millions of times across the world. Such tales are nothing new. The color TV in a remote Turkish farmstead and the concrete-walled house amid shacks of corrugated iron have often been paid for by absent family members. Plenty of church halls in Ireland have been funded by passing the plate around congregations in Boston and New York. But the scale of money flows is new. Mass migration has produced a giant worldwide economy...