Word: jade
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...haze. But Taipei and the industrial west coast are only a small part of Taiwan. The rest of the island is covered with remote, forested mountains, which are laced with hundreds of hiking trails. Taiwan is home to the highest mountain in east Asia?at 3,952 m, Yushan (Jade Mountain) is taller than Japan's Mount Fuji?while dozens of peaks soar above 3,000 m. Protected by the government, the mountains are home to black bears, salmon, rare birds and other wildlife and are the island's most compelling attraction...
...candy dresses who for $1.20 posed for photos with their pet python. It was curled up miserably in a basin with its mouth taped shut. Next to them were two more girls with a peacock. Downstairs at the entrance, shops offered a narrow but highly popular selection of souvenirs: jade bracelets, packets of ginseng and hard-core pornographic VCDs...
...Then Jen (Zhang), daughter of a political bigwig, arrives, and everything tips off-balance. The wiser, more cautious adults sense Jen's avidity for rare and dangerous toys like the Green Destiny. They are also suspicious of her governess (Cheng Peipei), who bears a resemblance to the ruthless killer Jade Fox. Then one night the sword disappears. And everyone springs into frantic, purposeful motion...
...roles. Butler had to contend with well over half of her lines involving the living conditions of chickens, while Lozada was stymied by her character's Rumplestiltskian obsession over her name. Showcase cameos by producers Shelby Braxton-Brooks '03 and Zadoc Angell '03 seemed merely self-indulgent; Braxton-Brooks' Jade, while wonderfully domineering and beautifully danced, was a departure from the already shaky plotline, and Angell couldn't manage to make the animated-John-Harvard-statue gag any funnier than it wasn't in Puck Willoughby...
...Downstairs, the weight room features Icarian free weight equipment, two bench presses, an incline press, a squat rack, a cable crossover jungle gym, free weights by Jade, several selectorized machines and other pieces of equipment...