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AUG 13, 2008
Olympic Village Wins Award for ‘Green’ Design
NPR
The sprawling Beijing Olympic Village won its own gold medal on Wednesday for going green. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson presented Chinese officials with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold award during a short ceremony, saying the 160-acre Olympic Village could serve as a future prototype for energy efficiency and environmentally friendly design.
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AUG 6, 2008
Parched Beijing Bilks Rural Water Supply
NBC News
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AUG 5, 2008
Polluted, Polite, With a Chance of Rain
The New York Times
China is not the first to give man-made rain a try. Many scientists note that there is no proof that rain management works as advertised. In 2003, a report by the National Academies of Sciences said that despite ongoing efforts to seed clouds in several countries and American states, there was no reliable evidence that the techniques generated more rain than the clouds would have disgorged anyway.
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AUG 2, 2008
Chinese Try to Sniff Out Pollution Before Games
CTV (Canada)
China has promised to meet World Health Organization standards for the Games, but in recent weeks, pollution levels have at times been about double the benchmark Chinese officials had hoped to achieve. So, Chinese officials have added a human touch to their anti-pollution efforts. They're also employing human sniffers, who have been deployed to areas around Olympic sites to find foul air.
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AUG 2, 2008
Beijing Olympics: China to Celebrate Week of ‘Fresh Air’
The Daily Telegraph
China's Olympic organisers are hoping to celebrate a week of "clean" skies tomorrow after recording another day when Beijing's notoriously poor air quality was officially judged good enough for the Games.
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