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...land famed for its elaborate culinary arts, the best-known chef is a chubby, smiling cartoon character. Master Kong (Kang Shifu) has been gracing the packets of instant noodles since the early 1990s, and is the creation of Tingyi, a company that chairman Wei Ing-chou built out of his parents' edible-oils firm in Taiwan's rural Changhua county. Thinking that mainland China's rapid development would boost demand for the kind of quick, cheap meals that workers would fill up on during factory breaks or after a punishing shift, he decided to cross the Taiwan Strait...
...beginning of this season, the show junked its much-loved "God Only Knows" ice pond opening-credits sequence for one that blended slo-mo falling, a la Mad Men, with what looked like a commercial for Preference by L'Oreal. (Do you fast-forward through that opening when TiVo-ing the show? I do.) But in the past two episodes, I've come to think that Olsen and Sheffer knew what they were doing and have made the vagaries...
...part that's because the document is light on policy specifics and heavy on freedom-loving boilerplate. Defining themselves as supporters of Founding Fathers is hardly risky; had the authors attempted to codify principles more controversial than "honor[ing] the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life" or "support[ing] America's national interest in advancing freedom," their interests could have clashed. For a movement whose social conservatives, fiscal warriors and national-security hawks have been roiled by infighting in the past, affirming common bonds may well have been the paramount concern...
...cultivated the dehumanization of locals as a secret to survival. "You can't think of these people as people," opined Sergeant Tony Yribe, another member of 1st Platoon. "If I see this old lady and say, 'Ah, she reminds me of grandmother,' but then she pulls out a f___ing bomb, I'm not going to react right." Children were considered insurgents or future insurgents, and women were little more than insurgent factories...
...practitioner from the Combat Stress team who was visiting Bravo Company's base on December 21. The intake evaluation form she filled out while talking to him that day is a horror show of ailments and dysfunctions. In the entry marked "Chief Complaint," she quoted him: "It is f - ing pointless." Green told Marrs he had been suffering from symptoms of instability, extreme moods and angry outbursts, including punching walls. He told her he was experiencing all of the following: sadness, difficulty falling asleep, nightmares, anxiety, worry, increased heart rate, tightness of chest, shortness of breath, feelings of helplessness, being...