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China: Prepping for Beijing

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 @ 20:15 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Education, Food, Health, Science, Sport
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

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This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

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