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It seems the Chinese government's bark is bigger than its bite. Any attempt at extra security for the Olympics has seemed harmless -- sometimes even pointless.
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Smog In Beijing Five Times Over Safety Limit
London Times | Flora Bagenal | Posted 07.06.2008 | Green
Pollution around the Olympic stadium in Beijing could be five times worse than levels deemed safe by the World Health Organisation. Chinese officials...
Bush: Skipping Opening Ceremony "An Affront To The Chinese"
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics
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TOYAKO, Japan — President Bush on Sunday defended removing North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and attending the opening ce...
China Tries To Rid Waters Of Algae For Olympics
AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 07.03.2008 | Green
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QINGDAO, China — China's latest Olympics nightmare is a vast algae bloom that covers one-third of the sea where the world's best sailors are sup...
China's Olympic Anti-Terror Forces Ride Segways
Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
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Who needs an armored, mine-resistant fighting vehicle to fight terrorists when you have a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric scooter? In Jinan, Shan...
China's Fake Tiger Photos and Its Growling Citizens
Alex Pasternack | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green
The South China tiger hasn't been seen since the 1960s. That's why photographs that emerged last year in Shaanxi Province, China, earned so much suspicion from eagle-eyed bloggers.
How To Crash the Beijing Summer Olympics
Forbes | Gady A. Epstein | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business
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Interested in attending the Olympics but didn't plan ahead? You may be in luck--especially if you're a corporate big shot with a private jet and more ...
Beijing Olympics From A to Z
The Guardian | Tom Lamont | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home
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J is for Jackie Chan As well as being an official ambassador of the Olympics (and owner of a Segway dealership that will provide a fleet of the uprig...
Beijing's Architectural Revolution (PHOTOS)
AP | ANITA CHANG | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business
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BEIJING - This ancient capital city, long known for the architectural splendor of its centuries-old palaces and temples, is getting a new look that c...
Getting in Shape to Watch the Olympic Games: A Five-Week Plan for the Intellectually Curious Mouse Potato
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
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Assuming that people heading to Beijing have already been getting ready mentally, this regimen is for those who want to be informed consumers of Olympic broadcasts.
Beijing to Unveil GPS Public Toilet Map
Danwei | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
Visas, camera equipment for foreign news crews, tickets to Olympic events: who needs 'em? The People's Daily rightly puts the focus on the true needs ...
Beijing Introduces Free Citywide Wireless Internet
Danwei | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
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June 25 is first day in the test phase of the 'Beijing Wicity Project' which aims to provide citizen's wireless internet access in much of downtown Be...
Beijing Hotels Shockingly Empty Ahead of Games
AP | STEPHEN WADE | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home
BEIJING — The Olympics are looking like a bust for the city's hotels. The 17-day games were supposed to generate a buzz throughout the summer, ...
High-Emission Vehicles Banned from Beijing Roads
China Daily | Zhang Haizhou | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green
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High-emission or yellow-labeled vehicles will be banned from Beijing roads from July to September to ensure green Olympics and Paralympics as promised...
The Olympics, Lenovo and the IOC Corporate "Social Compact"
Monroe Price | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media
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A recent informative New York TImes essay explores how big Olympic corporate sponsors are navigating the opportunities (and vulnerabilities) connected to Beijing.
Beijing Dispatches 8,000 Toilet Trained Workers
Reuters | Posted 06.23.2008 | Living
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Beijing has dispatched 8,000 toilet maintenance staff, each responsible for a specific public restroom in the city and trained in hygiene standards an...
Lepers, AIDS Patients Not Welcome in Beijing
USA Today | Posted 06.21.2008 | Home
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China is putting out the welcome mat for foreign tourists during the Olympics -- as long as they're not sick. Kyodo News reports that Beijing plans t...
Beijing Bans Half of City's Cars During Games
AP | STEPHEN WADE | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home
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BEIJING — Half of Beijing's 3.3 million vehicles will be pulled off the roads during the Olympics to help clean the city's noxious air for the g...
China Pollution: Beijing Bans 1 Million Cars For 2008 Olympics
Treehugger | Alex Pasternack | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home
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Despite ruling it out earlier, Beijing will ban one million vehicles from its streets for three months in an attempt to clear the air and roads ahea...
China Eats the World: How America Learned To Bike And China Learned To Drive
Alex Pasternack | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green
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Just as Americans are starting to realize the errors of excess, suffering at the gas pump and learning the virtues of saving energy, the Chinese are headed in the other direction.
Olympic Ambush Watch: Athletes, Tattoos, T-Shirts and Amnesty International
Monroe Price | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
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If athletes genuinely want to express their opinion, that's fine. But let's not forget, there is also the right not to express an opinion. Athletes should feel no moral obligation to speak out.
Evangelism and the Olympics
Monroe Price | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
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In the really vigorous competition to use the Olympics as an opportunity for persuasion, one sector to watch involves outside Christian missionaries.
Disaster Reponse in a Web 2.0 World
Rebecca Fannin | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
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Being in China one week after a massive earthquake reminds me of how advanced China is becoming -- and how the country's swift response has lessons for the U.S. and its poor handling of Katrina.
CCTV Television News: Doing It Right
Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.20.2008 | Media
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CCTV's earthquake coverage has taken us places no government propaganda machine could ever let us go. They're proud of it and we should all applaud their efforts.
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