Trips start in Hanoi, where guests explore the city's famed markets, colonial architecture, historical sites and French-influenced restaurants.

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And it may be just as well that the curators don't explore the imprint of French literary theory on American architecture in the 1970s and '80s.

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But we can also take a week to rent a car and make a less-relaxing effort to explore one island, driving from end to end, seeking out colonial-period architecture and native Taino cultural remnants, or sampling local cuisines, searching for differences in regional preferences within each island.

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Now that the basic architecture is down, Quake's 20-person lab, along with various university collaborators, is rushing to explore potential real-world applications.

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