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...climbs it twice is also a fool," so a Japanese saying goes. But in fact it's not as difficult as the proverb would have you believe. If arriving from Tokyo or Osaka, begin your ascent at Fujinomiya 5th station - a convenient trailhead - and bank on a five-hour trek to the top. Rest huts along the way sell noodles and will rent you a lumpy futon for a quick nap. There are also vending machines selling beer, hot tea and - you guessed it - Fuji Film disposable cameras. Yushan, Taiwan, 3,952 m Icy winds and dicey switchbacks...
...university president did not refer to his controversial comments on women and science until prompted to do so by a question that came about an hour into the ninety minute-long meeting...
Look only to the album art of the seminal troika of Modern Life is Rubbish, The Great Escape, and Parklife, the band’s finest hour: we see the yellow Blur logo, curvy and European-looking, cast onto three different images: on Rubbish, a vintage propaganda drawing of a speeding train, on Parklife, a close-up of a speeding racetrack greyhound, on Escape, two friends on a boat and the legs of one jutting out in a hyperrealized image...
...place’s wacky experimental leanings mean you may not always love what you hear. Its Monday night regular band, The Fringe, is supposedly the longest-running avant-garde jazz outfit in Cambridge, but when TheHotSpot heard it this week we found the rambling two-and-a-half-hour set to be bizarre, brash…and incredibly boring. And TheHotspot even likes Ornette Coleman...
Chickens bred for meat, too, lead miserable lives. Nearly nine billion chickens are raised and killed for food in the U.S.—one million are slaughtered every hour. Over their 45-day average lifetime, the chickens are overcrowded inside filthy sheds on factory farms where they live amidst their own waste. But the most serious welfare problem for these birds is their selective breeding, which causes them to grow so quickly that they suffer from painful heart and lung ailments and crippling leg disorders. Thirty years ago, researchers reported in the Veternary Report, “We consider...