Glen Mills just forwarded this one:
Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea
BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
www.iht.com/.../china.php
Then there was this:
Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html
This was early on, but it sounds like they will have as much as half the amount of cars on the road by banning all government workers from driving:
Olympians air a gripe about Beijing
March 12, 2008
Matt Reed was 1,500 meters into the last segment of the triathlon when he found himself gasping for oxygen. His legs were still pounding away at the pavement, his body pumped up after cruising through the swimming and cycling contests, but his lungs were shutting down.
The 32-year-old triathlete from Boulder, Colo., blames air pollution for triggering his asthma attack during the September track meet.
articles.latimes.com/.../fg-olyair12
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they said yes to China because they have been saying no for so long. It is truly ne of the worse governments in the world. what is truly upsettign is that we will only see the "Beautiful China' I'm sure NBC is going to kiss the toes of the Chinese leaders and sho nohting truly happening in The Peoples Republic of China. If NBC leaves the olympics we will see beautiful little children, the Great Wall, the buried Army and maybe pandas. Nothing about the polution in northeastern China where daily people die from efects of pulotion, no world about the coditions in china's prisons (the worst in the world), no story about the flood of young going into the cities leaving the countryside full of elderly who can't take care of themselves nor provide the agricultural needs of the cities.
Many poeple have said tha there will never be another Olympics in the southern USA because of the fanatic Christians and the bomb. I bet on one will ever see the Olympics in China again. I hope there is a huge protest conducted by Chinesse citizens. Probably can't happen because so few people o f the country can get tickets or even near where there will be any competition.
they said yes to China because they have been saying no for so long. It is truly ne of the worse governments in the world. what is truly upsettign is that we will only see the "Beautiful China' I'm sure NBC is going to kiss the toes of the Chinese leaders and sho nohting truly happening in The Peoples Republic of China. If NBC leaves the olympics we will see beautiful little children, the Great Wall, the buried Army and maybe pandas. Nothing about the polution in northeastern China where daily people die from efects of pulotion, no world about the coditions in china's prisons (the worst in the world), no story about the flood of young going into the cities leaving the countryside full of elderly who can't take care of themselves nor provide the agricultural needs of the cities.
Many poeple have said tha there will never be another Olympics in the southern USA because of the fanatic Christians and the bomb. I bet on one will ever see the Olympics in China again. I hope there is a huge protest conducted by Chinesse citizens. Probably can't happen because so few people o f the country can get tickets or even near where there will be any competition.
