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The Buildings Are Beautiful, If You Can Breathe Long Enough To Enjoy Them!

By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Aug 5 2008, 06:40 AM


Smog returned to Beijing's skies on Monday, despite claims by Chinese officials that drastic
anti-pollution measures had slashed the chances of Olympic events having to be rescheduled.


Well, it looks like it depends what day it is as to whether you need to wear a mask in China to protect yourself from air pollution just to walk the streets.  Let's face it...it's just plain ugly. And you hate to think of athletes practicing and then competing in this pollution.




The aerial photo taken on August 2, 2008 shows the Peking University Gymnasium,
in Beijing, China. The table tennis competition of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will
be held there. (Xinhua Photo)


While it looks very bad on August 4th, here is a slideshow of most of the buildings on August 2nd...




Slideshow of Beijiing Olympic Venues







 

No Major Problems

By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jul 6 2008, 09:23 AM


The Beijing Summer Olympic organizers have reported that they don't see there will be any major problems next month even though China has been through rioting, a major earth quake, flooding, now mold, algae and even locusts.

View this stunning slide show of the removal of blue-green algae from Qingdao, China beaches.

Bloomberg Slide show algae removal China

About 10,000 people are scooping algae out of the sea at the eastern city of Qingdao, while officials in Inner Mongolia are preparing to fight off a plague of locusts that may arrive in the capital city during the Olympics.


It's unbelievable what the Chinese people have gone through these past several months because of the wrath of nature.  You have to wonder how much manpower is going into the Olympics at the expense of their people.

Read an article from Bloomberg   í here






 


 
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