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Yushan has the most popular trek on the island. The trail starts near the top of the new central cross-island highway (#18) and winds steadily upward through magnificent forests of cypress, fir and hemlock. The first day's walk is a long one?six hours to scale 1,000 vertical meters to Paiyun cottage, two hours below the summit. Fellow hikers are plentiful, and their encouraging cries of jia you (literally, add gas) echo through the hills...
From the start, his life was dotted with feats of genius that even now seem incomprehensible. At 10 months, having spent his infancy watching his dad hit golf balls in the family garage in Cypress, Calif., Tiger picked up one of Earl's clubs and smacked a ball into the practice net--left-handed. He won a putting contest against Bob Hope at two. By six he was playing and beating 18-year-olds...
...woman called HUPD to report that a large white male on a small bike stole her bike seat. The seat is black and white and belongs on a Giant Cypress bike. The suspect was carrying the seat...
...Aside: who is buying the Cypress Hill album? How is it number 4 on the Billboard charts...
...midafternoon, as we skirted the broad waters of Lake Pontchartrain, we saw Spanish moss everywhere, dangling from cypress branches like the long, pointed beards scholars wear in old Chinese paintings. Herons and egrets waded, and turtles sunbathed amid fan palmettos and water hyacinths that sprouted from the water. It was a breathtaking contrast to the icy shores of Lake Michigan we had left behind 20 hours and nearly 1,000 miles...