The most romantic of all Parisian restaurants, Le Coupe-Chou, is tucked inside a gabled medieval house, just two blocks away from my apartment.

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Well hidden in the Latin Quarter but known to Paris expats, Le Coupe-Chou is a maze of seven candlelit rooms snaking through a vine-clad 17th-century townhouse and is overwhelmingly romantic.

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The film was written by videogame scribe Flint Dille (The Transformers: The Movie, Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay) from a story by Shinji Aramaki, Joseph Chou and Shigehito Kawada and produced by Joseph Chou (Appleseed Ex-Machina, Halo Legends, Space Pirate: Captain Harlock).

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"In a worst-case scenario, you could eject from a fighter jet, " says senior CAL flight instructor Chou Yu-sen, who once trained F-104 and T33 combat pilots.

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Chou can use his Nano-Imprint Lithography technique for semiconductor markets to make designs and chips.

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And if he needs an example, he can look to other successful self-published authors like Tim Chou.

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So these are some the key points in the long process of design development of an HTC phone, where engineers and designers push each other to uncomfortable realm, before eventually delivering the near-final product to Peter Chou for his ultimate test on the size, feel in hand, feel in pocket and even the ringtones.

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Wang leaves the day-to-day operations to her longtime friend, CEO Peter Chou, an early hire.

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Mr. Chou: The mobile market there is crowded with low-cost devices, some of them made by Chinese brands.

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In December, a group led by Stephen Chou at the University of Minnesota announced that it had got a single-electron transistor to work albeit unreliably at room temperature.

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