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...elegant restaurant of glass and timber serves what co-owner Philip Chin calls "casual gourmet" dishes, the best of which may be the superbly executed, fall-off-the-bone duck rendang. For years, Chin and his partners aspired to establish a suburban offshoot of their trendy downtown venue, Project Shop Caf?: with its retro furniture and jazzy ambience, PS represents the ample fulfillment of that dream...
...gallery of photographs of what was there before. Inside the complex, a wide spiraling incline takes shoppers on a tour of luxe fashion and lifestyle boutiques. Caf?s and restaurants abound, and if you're patient enough to brave the queues, Mist's upscale take on the traditional ramen shop makes for a delightful stop. Vague attempts have been made to cast Omotesando in an eco-friendly mold (there's a barrage of greenery and free bicycle parking within), but the eye is only briefly fooled: in the end, this is an icon of big-city consumerism, and an authentic taste...
From here on out almost everybody Richard meets is a Quirky Character whose purpose in life seems to be to jolly him out of his numbness. On his way home from the hospital, he stops at a doughnut shop run by a quirky immigrant named Anhil who sends up the foibles of Americans in broken English. ("America has two kinds of politicians--one has sex, the other has war--which do you like?") They become fast friends. When a sinkhole opens up near Richard's house, a quirky surveyor comes to survey it. A quirky neighbor girl's horse falls...
Some American high schools phased out vocational ed decades ago, when it was better known as shop class and was blamed for segregating--unintentionally or not--poor and minority students into low-paying careers. In his proposed budget this year, President Bush would eliminate all federal spending on vocational ed to pay for his No Child Left Behind high school initiatives, which are geared toward a precollege curriculum. But in his state budget this year Schwarzenegger is asking for $50 million in new funds for high school vocational-ed programs. Last year he pushed through $20 million in new funds...
...Inside the complex, a wide spiraling incline takes shoppers on a tour of luxe fashion and lifestyle boutiques. Cafés and restaurants abound, and if you're patient enough to brave the queues, Mist's upscale take on the traditional ramen shop makes for a delightful stop. Vague attempts have been made to cast Omotesando in an eco-friendly mold (there's a barrage of greenery and free bicycle parking within), but the eye is only briefly fooled: in the end, this is an icon of big-city consumerism, and an authentic taste of Tokyo's hypermodern retail landscape...