In terms of menu choices, fast-food chains are a lot like car brands: There's something for everyone.

A five-piece chicken nugget for the on-the-go soccer mom. A quarter pounder with cheese for the erudite lovers of the classics. A salad, for ... someone.

And for the person who enjoys the finer things in life, there are the flagships: the signature burgers. Without these, fast food would lose all meaning.

I decided to compare the signature sandwiches of the fast-food Big Three — the Whopper at Burger King, the Big Mac at McDonald's, and the Dave's Single at Wendy's — with one question in mind: Which chain truly makes the best flagship burger?

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Here is the storied and gloried lineup: the Whopper from Burger King, the Dave's Single from Wendy's, and the Big Mac from McDonald's.

Unwrapping them is like driving off the lot — once it's done, there's no going back. The Whopper and the Big Mac have held up well, but the Dave's Single looks like a flat tire.

Let's start with the Whopper. There is simply no Burger King without the Whopper. It's as entwined with the chain as the croissant is to France. It is indeed the "Home of the Whopper."

When the theme park known as Star Wars Land opens its doors at Disney World in 2019, it promises to be an immersive experience that any fan of the beloved saga will go crazy for. 

Over the weekend at Star Wars Celebration, we saw some teases of what will be available in the park, and now it sounds like there could be a resort inside the land that will be a must-stay for "Star Wars" fanatics. 

According to Walt Disney World News Today, Disney has sent out a survey to guests gauging their interest in a possible hotel resort experience inside Disney World, most likely located in Star Wars Land, which would be designed to look like you're staying on a starship.

Concept art included in the survey being done by Swagbucks shows that the lobby, guest rooms, and other areas of the resort definitely have the feel of the familiar ships seen in the "Star Wars" movies.

The survey also highlights the unique experience you would get out of the two-night, all-inclusive package that will cost roughly $900 to $1,000 per guest, including a two-day story set in the the "Star Wars" universe, personal interactions with "Star Wars" characters, live performers throughout the starship, plus the ability to engage in the story by doing flight training, ship exploration, lightsaber training, and personalized secret missions (both on the starship and throughout Star Wars Land).

Your stay also gets you buffet breakfasts, lunches, and evening dining, exclusive park admission to Star Wars Land, and starship amenities including a pool area and water garden, fitness area, onboard cantina, and — wait for it — robotic droid butlers.

It sounds like Disney is just at the idea phase with the resort, but this is just another example of how ambitious Disney World is being in executing Star Wars Land.

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Arguing is (almost) never fun.

Whether you're fighting with your significant other, friends, coworkers, or family, a bad fight can leave you feeling unhappy and overwhelmed for days on end.

More often than not, it also keeps you from achieving the very goals you're arguing about.

A study of nurses found that when they argued about patient care on the treatment floor, they were less likely to arrive at a good decision, and lost focus on the task at hand in favor of interpersonal conflict.

But we don't always have a good sense of why we fight. What pushes us to the point of conflict, when we know it will make us unhappy? And why does it leave us feeling so glum afterward? These findings from the world of psychology offer some less-than-obvious answers.

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1.You (or someone you know) have lots of power, but not much respect

One of the ways researchers think about interpersonal conflict is by analyzing the situations that create it.

A series of studies found that in the workplace, people who are given lots of power but low status tend to spark an unusually high level of conflict. Put them on a task with someone else, and a "vicious cycle" of perceived insult and responses is likely to form, which can lead to arguing.

Source: Organization Science

2. You (or your partner) are not getting enough sleep

If you've followed the science of sleep at all, you know that missing sleep has all kinds of negative effects. It's bad for your health, your brain, and your ability to get things done.

But sleep seems to play an important role in arguments as well, even when you weed out the effects of related issues like stress and anxiety. A study that looked at couples in a laboratory found that when even one partner had gotten too little sleep, both partners were less likely to act warmly toward one another or resolve problems, and more likely to get into fights.

Source: Social Psychology and Personality Science

3. You're rational — to a fault

What do people say when they're arguing with someone who just can't seem to compromise?

Be reasonable. Be rational.

But it turns out too much rationality can actually make us more likely to argue with one another, not less.

Research suggests that humans are actually at their most reasonable when they're arguing, picking positions that are easier to defend from criticism and thinking over each choice and word more carefully. But that same reasonableness makes it hard for people to actually compromise or see one another's points. They use all their mental resources trying to overcome another person's argument, and none on examining it or seeing its value.

Our minds seem to deploy reason as a weapon, and a way of defeating another person, and it can blind us to the the truth.

Source: Behavioral and Brain Sciences

The man known as the "Facebook killer" may have been taken down by a group of McDonald's employees in Erie, Pennsylvania, authorities said Tuesday.

Steve Stephens posted a video of himself shooting and killing a man on Facebook on Sunday. Police said he died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on Tuesday afternoon after a brief pursuit by Pennsylvania state police.

Before the car chase, however, Stephens stopped at a McDonald's drive-thru and ordered 20 Chicken McNuggets and large fries for $5.35, the restaurant's manager, Henry Sayers, told The New York Times.

A female employee recognized Stephens when he came up to the window, then she confirmed with other workers that it was him, according to police and Tom DuCharme, who owns that McDonald's franchise.

The employee took Stephens' money and waited for him to drive up to the next window before calling the police, DuCharme said. Although workers tried to stall Stephens by giving him his chicken nuggets but holding up his order of fries, he didn't wait.

"He just took his nuggets and said, 'I have to go,' and he drove off," Sayers told The Times. He said Stephens didn't speed away from the restaurant but drove at a normal speed.

A McDonald's spokesman said in a statement to Business Insider: "We applaud the crew members at this McDonald’s restaurant who recognized the suspect and did the right thing by quickly alerting the authorities of his location. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim’s loved ones and all of those impacted by this horrific crime."

By the time Stephens left the restaurant and turned onto Buffalo Road, where police say he ultimately killed himself, police were right behind him, DuCharme said.

When police tracked down Stephens' car, they pursued him while trying to get him to pull over. Law-enforcement officials said the chase did not go over 50 mph.

A state trooper eventually forced Stephens to stop by using what police call the PIT maneuver, in which a pursuing car can force a fleeing vehicle to suddenly turn, causing the driver to lose control and stop.

As officers approached his car, Stephens shot himself, Pennsylvania state police said on Tuesday on Twitter and at a news conference.

Stephens had been on the run from law enforcement since Sunday, when he posted several disturbing videos on Facebook, including one of him shooting and killing 74-year-old Robert Godwin after Godwin left an Easter meal with his family.

Facebook took down the video, as well as others he posted, and disabled his account within a few hours.

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Minting a million-dollar fortune isn't the remarkable feat it used to be.

It remains a marker of immense wealth, but the club is growing ever more crowded, with nearly 33 million people across the globe now laying claim to fortunes in excess of $1 million, according to estimates by Credit Suisse in its most recent Global Wealth Databook. 

The US alone claims 13.6 million adults with a net worth above $1 million — that's 41% of all the world's millionaires and more than the next eight countries combined. 

Switzerland, however, has the most millionaires per capita: Nearly 12% of the adults in the country are millionaires, or one out of every 8.6. 

The millionaire population isn't necessarily a indicator of broad wealth within a country. Despite having the most millionaires by a gaping margin, the median wealth for adults in the US is only $44,977. Of the 18 countries with more than 200,000 millionaires, that's a lower median wealth figure than all but Germany ($42,833), Sweden ($39,692), and China ($4,885). 

Below, Business Insider has ranked the 18 countries with the most millionaires — that's all fortunes above $1 million, including the billionaires — based on Credit Suisse's annual wealth report (you can read the full report here). We've also included the country's population and median wealth for comparison purposes. 

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18. Austria

Number of millionaires: 217,000

Adult population: 6.84 million

Median wealth per adult: $52,519

17. Denmark

Number of millionaires: 240,000

Adult population: 4.24 million

Median wealth per adult: $52,279

16. Sweden

Number of millionaires: 285,000

Adult population: 7.41 million

Median wealth per adult: $39,692

The world's youngest leaders hail from across the globe — from democracies, monarchies, and dictatorships in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

While seven of the eight leaders are men, the youngest — Vanessa D'Ambrosio, the 28-year-old captain regent of San Marino — is a woman.

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8. Volodymyr Groysman, 39, is Ukraine's youngest ever prime minister. He was elected by Parliament in April 2016 and is a close ally of the president, Petro Poroshenko, who took power in 2014 following the ousting of the Russian-backed authoritarian Viktor Yanukovych.

7. Jüri Ratas, 38, is the new prime minister of Estonia (he was voted into office in November 2016) and the leader of the country's Centre Party.

6. Saleh Ali al-Sammad, 38, is the leader of the Houthi militants, who control much of Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa. (The US is providing support to the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis, and Yemen also has a separate provisional government with a president and prime minister.)

Exercise can be unpleasant, especially if you're not in the habit of working out and are trying to get started again.

Much of the success or failure of an exercise program depends on your ability to stick to it, and incorporate it into your routine.

One way to get into the habit of exercise is to find activities you enjoy from the start — that relax you as much as they get your body moving.

Business Insider recently analyzed a variety of ways people can burn calories, and not every form of exercise requires joining a gym or taking up a new sport.

Here are 13 ways to work out that feel a lot more relaxing than than going to the gym, listed from lowest intensity to highest. The calorie-burning estimates for each one are based on National Institutes of Health research, and calculated for a 200-pound person.

The important caveat here, of course, that exercising on its own actually doesn't do much to make you lose weight. If you want to slim down, we suggest talking to a doctor about what a healthy weight is for you and working to cut down on sugar and unnecessarily large portion sizes. 

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13. Hatha yoga | 228 calories/hour

Hatha yoga, a version of the exercise practice centered on holding specific poses, sits at the bottom of this list, burning an average of about 228 calories per hour in a 200-pound person. It's not the most intense exercise, but it gets you stretching and moving.

12. A slow walk | 255 calories/hour

Many people might not think of casual walking as exercise, but it is. Building long walks into your daily schedule can have an impact. For every hour walked at 2 mph, a 200-pound person burns 255 calories.

11. Bowling | 273 calories/hour

Bowling can feel more like an arcade game than anything else, but it actually burns 273 calories per active hour. If you're trying to lose weight, however, you should probably consider skipping the beer and pizza while you're at it.

Known all over the world for their temperate climate and sandy beaches, the Caribbean islands are a go-to destination for many island sunseekers.

It's not easy picking from the 7,000 islands that dot the Caribbean Sea, however. That's where we come in.

We recently crunched the numbers and came up with a list of the 25 best countries, republics, and territories in the Western Hemisphere archipelago.

We compared the islands using metrics like flying time from New York City, average hotel-room cost, the number of attractions, and its beach-density index, a score that rewards an island for having a relatively large amount of beachfront based on its size.

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Sure, you could buy a new watch for spring — but there's a much cheaper and easier way to wake sure your wristwear is ready for warmer weather and the casualness it brings.

A shocking number of watch-wearing men aren't aware that the watch straps their timepieces come with are quickly and easily replaceable. No, you're actually not stuck with that faux leather strap.

This opens up an endless number of replacement straps, and we think the best one for spring is the colorful nylon NATO watch strap, which adds a pop of color to any wrist it's put on.

NATO, unsurprisingly, is derived from military style in WW2, and the name comes from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This kind of strap can both dress down a Rolex and dial up a Seiko.

The best part? They're dirt cheap, and can be found on any number of sites from $9 to $15 normally. So you can get any combination of colors, stripes, patterns, and even solid colors to match your entire watch wardrobe to your outfits. They also come in leather, but those are usually a bit more expensive.

They're also easy to install, following these simple steps.

Some of our favorites come from Crown and Buckle, which sell for $12 for regular straps and $15 for premium ones of slightly higher quality. Other brands include Cheapest Nato Straps (around $8), and you can also find them on Amazon.

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Didn't hit your fitness and diet goals in time for spring? Don't fret.

There are still plenty of things you can start doing now to look and feel healthier.

You're probably not going to wake up looking like an underwear model tomorrow — but you can certainly start feeling better and improving your digestion in a week, according to registered dietitian and nutritionist Andy Bellatti.

Here are a few things Bellatti and other nutritionists recommend.

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DO: Drink lots of water.

Water is essential — it regulates the shape of every cell inside our bodies. If we don't get enough, in fact, these cells begin to shrivel up.

The CDC recommends choosing water instead of sugar-sweetened beverages to "help with weight management." Swapping a cold glass of H2O for a single 20-ounce soda will save you about 240 calories.

So hydrate, Bellatti tells Business Insider. "Ideally with water." Not a fan of the absence of flavor? He suggests spicing it up with a few slices of lemon, lime, or cucumber.

DON'T: Go on a juice cleanse.

If you're considering a "detox" or "juice cleanse," you might want to reconsider. Drinking just water, juice, or any other liquefied concoction for more than a few days can set you up for unhealthy eating behaviors, and can often lead to unhealthy spikes and drops in blood sugar levels, which can spawn cravings and mood swings.

"This is a recipe for 'hangriness,'" Bellatti says, "that also inaccurately paints all solid food as problematic."

DO: Cut back on sodium.

Most of us — 89% of adults, according to the CDC— eat too much sodium, and that's not including any salt added at the table.

Whether salt is a net negative or positive for your health, too much of anything isn't a good idea. As far as sodium is concerned, too much is linked with puffiness and bloating, according to Harvard Health. So depending on your diet, cutting back on salt could be an easy way to start feeling better.

"Sodium retains water," Bellatti says, "so lowering sodium intake also reduces puffiness."

Sometimes it's hard to picture what politicians and dictators were like before they left their marks on the global stage.

We collected old photos of major leaders, past and current, to give a taste of who they once were.

Unfortunately, we were limited by photo availability, so not every major figure from the 20th and 21st centuries made it into the post.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a military service uniform in an undated photograph.

Kim Il Sung, the former leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as a 16-year-old in 1928. He joined a communist youth organization around that time and was arrested and jailed for activities with the group.

Source: Britannica

Russian President Vladimir Putin as a young child in Russia in the 1950s.

In a photo posted to Instagram earlier this year, Dave Asprey, founder and CEO of Bulletproof Coffee, smiles big as he flexes his left arm, revealing a small white disk attached to this tricep.

"It's official. I'm a cyborg," the caption reads.

In Silicon Valley, a growing number of entrepreneurs and biohackers are using a medical technology called a continuous glucose monitor, or CGM, in order to learn more about how their bodies work. They wear the device under their skin for weeks at a time.

CGMs, which cropped up on the market less than 10 years ago and became popular in the last few years, are typically prescribed by doctors to patients living with diabetes (both types 1 and 2). They test glucose level, or the amount of sugar in a person's blood, and send real-time results to a phone or tablet. Unlike fingerstick tests, CGMs collect data passively, painlessly, and often.

For people taking a DIY approach to biology, CGMs offer a way to quantify the results of at-home experiments around fasting, exercise, stress, and sleep.

Asprey, a self-proclaimed biohacker who's spent over $1 million on "smart drugs," wearable tracking devices, and diagnostics tests in the pursuit of cognitive enhancement, has been wearing a CGM on and off for two months. He does not have diabetes, though he's familiar with fingerstick tests from 20 years ago when he weighed 300 pounds and was told by his doctor to monitor his glucose.

In 2017, Asprey bought the device from a European vendor online. (In the US, patients need a prescription to get a CGM.) He's has been wearing it during a cross-country tour for his new book, "Head Strong," so he can track how sleep disruption due to jet lag affects glucose.

A small body of research suggests that a lack of sleep may contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. In 2016, Dr. Frank B. Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard, published the results of a study that followed over 133,000 (generally healthy) women for 10 years. The researchers found that women who self-reported difficulty sleeping were associated with a 25% increased risk for type 2 diabetes.

"Wearing one of these all of the time would be kind of absurd," Asprey says, touching the area around his implant. "I wanted to see what would happen."

Asprey found that his glucose level is normal, and his standard breakfast of Bulletproof Coffee — a proprietary blend of grass-fed butter, oil, and coffee — did not cause an increase in glucose. (Asprey's experience is subjective and does not suggest the beverage is safe to drink for all.)

His studies on the relationship between sleep deprivation and glucose are ongoing, but Asprey doesn't plan to wear the device long-term because it's invasive and his health doesn't require it.

Few entrepreneurs who wear CGMs actually live with diabetes.

At Nootrobox, a startup that makes cognitive enhancement supplements, or "smart drugs," a majority of the company's dozen employees subscribe to an increasingly popular diet called intermittent fasting, which involves going without food for anywhere from hours to several days. They wear CGMs so they can see how the food they eat spikes their glucose in real time.

Kevin Rose, the cofounder of Digg and a serial entrepreneur, was prescribed and wore a CGM for a brief time. Like the employees of Nootrobox, he got one for the love of data.

"I'm somewhat a little bit of a 'body hacker.' I like to try out different things to see how it impacts my overall wellbeing," Rose told Business Insider in January. "I put [the CGM] on and I wore it for about a month. When I did, I would throw everything at it."

He drank a glass of pulp-less juice just to watch his glucose level go "through the roof."

Patrick Collison, CEO and cofounder of mobile payments startup Stripe, said on Twitter in 2016 that he bought a FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring Systemin Europe. Collison does not live with diabetes, he said, but has become interested in glucose monitoring since learning how different foods affect insulin response, which is regulated by blood sugar levels.

The early adopters believe if they can access the data around their own glucose levels and take action to lead healthier lives now, their efforts may help them stave off obesity, diabetes, and other life-threatening diseases in the future. They expect CGMs to become more common.

Asprey, of Bulletproof, says the CGM has taught him what low blood sugar and high blood sugar feels like. He hopes to apply those learnings toward making better lifestyle choices.

"The whole point of monitoring isn't to rely on the monitoring," Asprey says. It's about having the awareness to make confident decisions about the body you live in.

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Martin Altenburg, a 17-year-old from Fargo, North Dakota, achieved the impressive feat of gaining acceptance into every Ivy League college.

He also gained acceptance into Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, and four other schools. In all, he sent applications to 19 colleges.

Applying to just a few schools, let alone more than a dozen, takes time and patience. So Altenburg had to take a measured approach to the admissions process.

"I made a schedule for myself," Altenburg told Business Insider. "I'm a fairly disorganized person, so I only make schedules for applying for colleges and studying for AP exams."

Altenburg began working on his essays, which were the most time-intensive, at the end of the summer, and he finished his Common Application essay before September was up.

He was applying early action to Stanford, which had a deadline of November 1. The school required shorter essays, which he worked on during October.

Once he finished Stanford's application, he took a look at his remaining schools and split up his time.

"I devoted one or two days to a school that had smaller, short-answer essays or only one essay," he said. "Then for schools like Caltech that have five prompts that are all fairly long responses, I'd spend a week working on them.

"By the end of the process, I was able to recycle a lot of my essays or adapt them a bit for the colleges," he said.

The process was the result of three months of preparing. In November and December alone, Altenburg estimated he spent about 50 hours writing essays and another 30 obsessing about admissions while exploring sites like College Confidential, where students post about their experiences on a message board.

Now, as the school year winds down, he must decide which school to attend. His top contenders are Harvard, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford.

In addition to finding a school that will help him explore his academic interests, he's looking for the right fit.

"I know in high school I'm sort of an outlier in terms of my interests and my motivations, and I really want to find a community in college where I'm able to relate to having a passion for environmentalism and the sciences," Altenburg said.

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If you didn't already know that Gary Friedman serves as CEO of Restoration Hardware, a walk into his Napa Valley home would give it away. 

The massive mansion, known as Eight Palms, was fully renovated by the Restoration Hardware design team. The result is a living, breathing RH catalog.

Clad in neutral colors with its precise lines and visual geometry, the house is no cookie-cutter renovation. And according to Curbed SF, it's now available for $2 million cheaper than before. It's back on the market with a new listing price of $8.5 million, and Ginger Martin of Sotheby's International Realty has the listing.

Brittany Kriegstein contributed reporting to a previous version of this article.

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The mansion is situated on a property in St. Helena, in California's famous Napa Valley. Natural elements are showcased throughout the grounds, taking advantage of the environment.

These eight-foot black gates are complete with brass hardware, and make for a dramatic entrance to the estate.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Friedman paid $5.9 million for the house in 2013. He initially planned on turning it into a private getaway for himself, but then decided to remodel and resell it. The whole process took two years to complete, and the results — like this entry courtyard —speak for themselves.

Source: WSJ

In March 2012, Kristin Addis quit her job as an investment banker in Southern California.

"It was hard for me when our paid time off was only 14 days per year," she tells Business Insider.

"We'd go to the office puking our guts out because we didn't want to use our vacation time being sick. I felt back then like even if I wanted to, in that 14 days, I wasn't really allowed to take it all at once. I felt like 'What is this money worth if I don't have the opportunity to spend it on what I want?

"I thought there had to be more to life than that."

So she set out to find it.

Less than a year later, Addis bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok, planning to travel overland through Southeast Asia. Since then, the now 30-year-old has largely stayed on the move, documenting her journey through her blog, Be My Travel Muse, and sharing the expertise she's gathered in her book, "Conquering Mountains: The Guide to Solo Female Travel," produced with Nomadic Matt's Matt Kepnes.

Below, she talks about the new life she built traveling the world: what it looks like, the reality of working on the road, and how she affords it.

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Addis, who had lived in Taiwan when she was 21 to study Mandarin, started her trip in Southeast Asia because she'd read a traveler could get by on $1,000 a month, a sharp drop from the $3,000-$4,000 a month price of her California life.

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 In Newport Beach, California.

"I had been saving for years," Addis remembers. "It was between putting money into buying a condo or traveling." She managed to accumulate around $20,000 in cash, plus about $60,000 in retirement funds, which she says she won't touch until it's time to retire.

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At Hohenzollern Castle, Germany.

"I've never had debt other than school debt," Addis says. "I won't spend money I don't have, and I don't want to dip into funds meant for later. If I couldn't make being a travel influencer work, I would have gotten a job before I touched my retirement savings."

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 In Maui, Hawaii.

Ten years after he bought the beachfront Casa Malibu Inn for $20 million, Oracle founder Larry Ellison is just about ready to unveil the first in a new group of ultra-high-end luxury retreats.

He's doing it with a trio of high-profile partners: Robert De Niro, chef Nobu Matsuhisa, and film producer Meir Teper.

Dubbed Nobu Ryokan Malibu, a new 16-room hotel now stands on the property Ellison bought a decade ago.

It's the first in what is being called the Nobu Ryokan Collection, a new group of luxury retreats in exotic destinations around the world, created by Ellison and the creative minds behind the Nobu restaurants.

The experience, which is modeled after a traditional Japanese inn, won't come cheap — according to Curbed, rooms will start around $1,100 a night, though that rate could go up to $2,000 during "preferred" times.

Let's take a look inside the hotel, which opens April 28. 

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The two-story hotel is situated on an oceanfront lot on Carbon Beach, an affluent community in Malibu where Ellison has been rumored to own as many as 10 homes.

Source: The Real Deal

That location makes for some amazing sunsets.

While this isn't the first Nobu-branded hotel, it's the first to be created in the new collection of ryokan-inspired properties.

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Anne Marie Slaughter, the former assistant secretary of state and the author of "The Chessboard & The Web," explains why she turned down a job at the White House after President Obama's election in 2012. Following is a transcript of the video.

In many ways, my career has been a whole series of "aha moments" because I've reinvented myself roughly every eight years from law professor, to dean, to government official and now I run a non-profit. But I do think the most important "aha moment" was after I left the State Department because our eldest son really needed both parents completely focused on him. That part was hard but he needed me and he needed his father too and so, it was the right thing to do and I knew it. But the 'aha moment' came a year later when I was thinking about was I going to go back into government if President Obama won in 2012. And I had been an assistant secretary of state, so all the jobs over that are very, very good. This was my moment, this was my party in power. I spent my whole life preparing really for this moment.

And I realized I just didn't want to miss my children's last four years at home. I get emotional even when I talk about it because I suddenly realized that not withstanding my ambition, which burns bright I just couldn't bear the idea that I would look back at the end of my life and think "there they were in high school." And I would never have been there. Now, they would tell you mom's definition of being there is not everybody's definition, so even "staying home", I was gone a lot but my youngest is now about to graduate from high school and now they really are gone, and I'm very glad I made that decision.

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Nearly every day on his way to work, a young doctor named Bhavik Kumar passes a crowd of demonstrators who protest his life’s work.

The 32-year-old logs more than 3,000 miles a month driving between his home in Austin and one of the three abortion clinics left in San Antonio, Texas.

In the two years since finishing his medical residency, Kumar has performed daily abortion procedures, and fought against an extremely restrictive Texas abortion clinics law that the Supreme Court ultimately overturned last June.

In the next two weeks, Kumar and his colleagues are reopening one of the more than 19 abortion clinics that closed across Texas since the law passed in 2013.

Reproductive rights activists call such laws Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers, or TRAP laws, because they impose strict requirements on abortion clinics and providers.

Amid daily taunts and the Republican-dominated state legislature's moves to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling with new abortion bills, Kumar has chosen to stay and fight for better abortion access in Texas.

"It may not happen in my lifetime, but I'll die trying," Kumar told Business Insider. "I think we all have to try, if not for ourselves then for the generations that come after us because [restricting abortion access] is unjust."

A 2013 University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll found that 16% of Texans think abortion should never be allowed, 30% say only in cases involving incest, rape or when the woman's life is in danger, 13% say only if a need has clearly been established, while 36% think it should be allowed as a "matter of personal choice."

The number supporting abortion is higher nationwide, with 59% of US adults supporting its legality in general.

After growing up in Texas and completing medical school in Lubbock — a town frequently dubbed "the Buckle of the Bible Belt" — Kumar spent two years finishing a medical residency in New York.

But unlike many fellow abortion providers who left Texas for more liberal cities like New York, Portland, or San Francisco, Kumar made the choice to stay and continue administering abortions in his home state.

"I kept seeing folks who were like-minded leave the state and not come back," he said.

A protester once came within four feet of him, Kumar said, screaming that he hoped his hands would fall off and he would die because he performed abortions. But he said verbal attacks like that don't deter him from doing his job, because of the patients he needs to treat.

He has seen women who have tried to induce a miscarriage, women who have driven over 200 miles for treatment, and women who have crossed the US-Mexico border all come seeking abortions at the local clinics in San Antonio.

"This is part of my fate," he said, adding that he will often tell patients about different options he could offer them if the clinic was based in New York. "It's the folks that live in rural and conservative places ... that need the help the most."

'We're used to it'

Since the Supreme Court ruling, Kumar and his colleagues have celebrated being able to focus on doing their jobs and trying to rebuild the clinics that existed prior to 2013. But with President Donald Trump's stated desire to overturn the country's pivotal Roe v. Wade abortion case, Kumar said, he knows that fight is far from over.

"Unfortunately, we're used to it and we know how to deal with it," he said, adding that comments like Trump saying (and later apologizing) that women should be "punished" for seeking an abortion or Mike Pence telling antiabortion demonstrators that "life is winning again in America" are what he and his Texan colleagues have been dealing with since the start of their careers.

While Texas has always been a more conservative state, with active anti-abortion lawmakers fighting to "defund" Planned Parenthood, for example, it is also home to significant pro-choice opposition and a growing "right to choose" activist community.

In large part, the patients themselves inspire Kumar to continue doing his profession. The women brave a difficult personal choice and societal stigma to come to him, he said, and many others also come from a history of poverty, violence, marginalization, and medical problems that makes raising an unwanted child even more difficult.

"I think politicians know that," Kumar said. "They know that when [women] don't have access to abortion, it sort of sentences them to a life of poverty and a life that's not within their control."

As for the protests, Kumar has also long accepted them as an inextricable part of his life and profession. While some of the more violent demonstrators will make Kumar reevaluate whether the job justifies the risks to his personal safety, he said, the certitude that he is doing the right thing always returns.

"[Without safe access] abortion goes underground, it becomes dangerous," Kumar said. "Women die."

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