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Maltzan’s current designs range from urban museums, like California’s Sonoma County Museum of Art, to a beach house along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu...
...audience in the first of many overly solemn voiceovers, the year is 1876. Algren is a broken man, tortured by nightmares about his participation in an attack on a neutral Cheyenne village during the American Civil War. Reduced to drunkenly demonstrating his riflery skills at carnivals along the West Coast, Algren reluctanctly accepts an offer to train a modernizing Japanese army during the sweeping changes of the Meiji Renaissance. Soon after arriving in Tokyo, Algren is captured in battle by the rebel Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), a fierce but predictably wise warrior committed to preserving the bushido, or samurai code...
...while Taiwan itself renounced the possible use of force to resolve the issue of its autonomy as far back as 1990, the PRC has launched missiles several miles off the coast in a “military exercise” in 1996, just days before their first-ever direct Taiwanese presidential election. Just this past week, a Chinese military strategist claimed that he was “not concerned that foreign investment might drop, or that [China’s] development would be set back several years, its soldiers might die, its relations with third countries be affected or that...
...uniform. Like all males in Taiwan over the age of 18, he's required by law to do national service. After three months of boot camp, there's a good chance he'll be sent to one of Taiwan's heavily fortified outlying islands, located just kilometers off the coast of mainland China. He doesn't relish the prospect. "You just do drills and sit in bunkers, day after day," he sighs. "I'll be miserable?and bored...
Every time a condom breaks, a woman has to endure an anxious, nail-biting month before she can know for sure that the coast is clear. But thanks to the advent of emergency contraception—what has appropriately been deemed “the morning-after pill”—women now have a safe and effective way of preventing pregnancy when mistakes and accidents happen. That is, of course, unless they happen to have sex on the weekend...