Word: bamboos
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...with China, it has in recent years gone from a nearly forgotten outpost to a popular weekend getaway, partly due to the success of the luxury train. But Sapa still has almost no nightlife and hasn't even gotten around to assigning names to its streets. Surrounded by mountains, bamboo forests and dramatic rice terraces, the town is just as enticing as the journey?if you can tear yourself away from the sofas, open-hearth fireplaces and board games at the Victoria Sapa Hotel (a three-day train-and-hotel package, priced from $188, includes one night's hotel stay...
...confident, brassy and aggressive, beat former world champions Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. died. Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, a world record-setting pole vaulter who was named pole vaulter of the century in 2000 by USA Track & Field; in Fresno, California. Warmerdam, a pioneer who competed with primitive bamboo poles, was the first to clear 15 feet, in 1940, holding the record for 11 years. He won the James A. Sullivan Award in 1942 as America's outstanding amateur athlete. DIED. SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI, 74, an American-born international Hindu leader, publisher of Hinduism Today and spiritual guru...
...lives with two women, three coffins and the certainty that one day the Yangtze River will flood his simple mud-walled house. But to a barge-towman who spent most of his years in the westernmost of the Three Gorges in central China, straining against ships' ropes of braided bamboo, this looming disaster is relative. "I used to pull boats through there 25 times a month," says the 73-year-old, pointing from his doorway to Qutang Gorge, where the Yangtze rushes between towering limestone cliffs...
...rising up in all directions bathed in bright lights and crowned by clotted spikes and crowns. They look more like space ships than buildings. Much of the growth has happened in the last ten years, a result of the techno-globalism party everyone seemed to still be celebrating. "Like bamboo shoots," beamed manager of the Peace Hotel restaurant who wore the nametag Sheriff Shaung, as he swept his hand over a long grove of buildings that had sprung up in the last ten years...
...presented him with dozens of photos of potential spouses, which he stacked high on his parliamentary office desk. The one that caught his eye was of a kimono-clad beauty, a 21-year-old university student named Kayoko Miyamoto. Her family was from Kamakura, an upper-class town of bamboo-shaded temples and hydrangea gardens, not far from Yokosuka, in Koizumi's legislative district. Her grandfather had founded a large pharmaceutical company, and she grew up in a wealthy, though not ostentatious, environment. On their first date, Koizumi and Miyamoto dined at a French restaurant in Akasaka, a high-rent...