Air pollution shrouds Beijing on eve of Olympics
By TINI TRAN – 6 hours ago

BEIJING (AP) — The wall of gray haze around the National Stadium and
across the city cut visibility down to a mile. On the eve of opening
ceremonies, Beijing's polluted air took center stage Thursday as the
most visibly pressing problem for Olympic organizers who had promised
to clean up the Chinese capital.

Despite China's enormous attempts to improve the air quality in the
run-up to the Summer Games, the stubbornly thick haze that covered the
city illustrated how difficult and elusive a target clear skies can
be. In the end, it will come down to the wild card of weather: rain
and wind.

"I hoped that the measures could have more effect than they had in the
last week," said Zhu Tong, an associate professor at Peking
University's College of Environmental Science and Engineering who has
been advising the government on pollution issues.

On Aug 7, 5:33 pm, "abianc...@my-deja.com" my-deja.com>
wrote:

Duststorms usually hit Beiing in the Spring time, I had one last year.
Quite an experience.

On Aug 7, 7:41 pm, James hotmail.com> wrote:

From tomorrow....nations will compete to be the best in the world...in
the number of Olympic gold medals.

How many golds Taiwan expect to win...more than the USA, Russia, Japan
or China ?

On Aug 7, 6:26 pm, baldeagle yahoo.com.sg> wrote:

Taiwan will win a goose egg.

On Aug 8, 9:28 am, rst0wxyz yahoo.com> wrote:

Golden goose egg or a rotten one ?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/medals/alltime/index.html

All-time Medal Standings:

China - 286 medals.

Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) - 15 medals.

Hong Kong - 1 (Gold).

Singapore only won 1 (Silver).

China has 1.3 billion people and Taiwan has 23 million people, -> 56:1
and medals 19:1. So medals/total population, Taiwan is clear winner!

And Singapore is clear loser!

On Aug 8, 11:03 am, "abianc...@my-deja.com" my-deja.com>
wrote:

Garbage again.

My question was...
"How many golds Taiwan expect to win...more than the USA, Russia,
Japan
or China ?"

Is it your brain..retarded ?

How many golds....not bronze or iron...how many gold medals
Taiwan expect to win....not Singapore, nor Timbuktu...

Singapore don't expect to win a gold in another 100 years...
because Singaporean is not good at sports.

"baldeagle" yahoo.com.sg> wrote in message
news:2ccad105-2b3c-45c5-b89f-ae2f07291e97@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

Hairless man, no gold medals for participants this time. Everyone is sucking
pollutant dust.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/medals/alltime/index.html

All-time Medal Standings:

China - 286 medals.

Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) - 15 medals.

Hong Kong - 1 (Gold).

Singapore - 1 (Silver).

China has 1.3 billion people and Taiwan has 23 million people, -> 56:1
and medals 19:1. So medals/total population, Taiwan is clear winner!

And Singapore is clear loser!