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...benefits of the auto restrictions come from not just taking polluting cars off the streets. Beijing's notorious traffic jams mean that even newer, efficient cars pollute more than if they were traveling in free-flowing traffic, says Hao Jiming, a professor of environmental science at Tsinghua University. "Driver speeds will increase, especially in urban areas. The high speed makes emissions lower," Hao says. He estimates that simply removing cars will cut pollutants by 40%, and the higher speeds of the remaining vehicles will mean an additional 10% reduction in pollutants. Beijing has added subway lines and increased its number...
SHANGHAI — As I prepared to travel to China for the first time, I thought that bracing myself for the culture shock was the best way to ease the transition into my ten week stint in Shanghai. Since my Mandarin language skills barely extend past ni hao, I came to Shanghai expecting only additional culture shock. But as I used my first lunch hour to explore Shanghai’s sleek Pudong area—a special economic region that the city transformed from farmland into a breathtaking skyline in only 20 years—I quickly discovered...
...with Beijing 2008, the sports system has gone into overdrive. After 2001, the annual budget for the Sports Ministry increased to $714 million, from $428 million the year before. "With the Olympics in Beijing, we want to make sure we do very well," says Hao Qiang, head of the Sports Ministry's competition-and-training department. "Otherwise, the public will be very disappointed that we did not display proper national spirit." It's a pricey endeavor: each of China's gold medals will cost the state upwards of $7 million, according to Bao Mingxiao, director of the Sports Ministry...
...Zhou Tong and Liu Hao were among those unlucky enough to learn first-hand about the lingering danger. The two boys, aged 12 and eight at the time, were playing in a river in northeastern China's Jilin Province in 2004, when they came into contact with toxins that had leaked from the abandoned arms. The boys lived, but the illness induced by their exposure forced them to drop out of school. The Japanese government refused to pay damages to the boys' families, despite acknowledging that abandoned chemical weapons had been the cause of their sickness. Such cases inflame longstanding...
...good to turn that around before the championship itself.” The medaling continued in the foil, where junior co-captain Kai Itameri-Kinter notched the silver medal, falling to Columbia’s Kurt Getz. Teammate and sophomore Long Ouyang rounded out the top 10, and rookie Hao Meng ended up 19th of 30. “Kai has been a solid, great leader for us all three years at Harvard,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “He continues to amaze me in terms of his solid performances. He’s mentally...