Too often figures stick out against the landscape like cardboard cutouts in a pop-up book.

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It's not exactly a landscape of mom-and-pop inns, but Liang says there's a parallel with the U.S. of the 1950s before the interstate highway system was finished: The market is fragmented and full of opportunity.

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