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Beard Papa's is the Dunkin' Donuts of Japan, only it has replaced fried dough with cream puffs on steroids. It opened its first U.S. store in 2003 and has been invading mall spots. Inside each store, Japanese women in uniforms push down on metal levers to plop rich, creamy custard mixed with whipped cream into oversize profiterole shells. Like so much of Japanese culture, Beard Papa's has taken our creation and refracted it through the mythological wholesomeness of America in the 1950s--which is just what you want fast-food dessert to taste like...
...start in the hope of crossing the 614 miles of unpaved road to the eastern town of Abeche by nightfall. Bishaq was not only five and a half hours late, but come 5 p.m., as we passed a dust-blown town called Mongo, he suddenly swerved through some metal gates, pulled up in a dusty courtyard, stepped out and ambled away with the word: "Hotel...
...gulag—er, Mather. Next year, you’ll need them for your candlelight vigil once they disappear off the face of the earth. At most colleges the person that you ultimately are shaped into is determined through long bouts of reflection and tempering the inner metal of your being in the fire of self-doubt. Luckily, Harvard spares you this. Instead, who you are is determined by an algorithm run by a multibillion-dollar institution. Because, in case you haven’t noticed yet, your house is your life. Admitted to Adams? Buy a beret...
...need change," then many feel the U.S. should start helping burgs like Santa Cruz build the kind of small enterprises that can jump-start more viable local economies. "There is too much entrepreneurial ambition in this country that never sees one peso of encouragement," says Roberto Hernandez, 29, whose metal-window-frames business was financed by the Santa Cruz microbank, which is called Xu Nuu Ndavi, or Poor People's Money in Mixtec...
...hidden glories of Paris. On the Oise River northwest of the city, the SEDIF water-purification plant uses a nanofiltration system that forces water through 84 acres of membranes housed in a giant matrix of 190 metal tubes. South of the capital in Valenton, one can breathe the swampy odors of a massive wastewater plant that treats 159 million gal. of sewage every day and converts the solid waste into 82,000 tons of combustible pellets--enough to provide 80% of the sewage plant's annual energy needs. And there's that old favorite, les égouts de Paris...