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A rare sight in Beijing

A long time ago, a friend’s student from Jiangxi complained that you never saw individual clouds in Beijing. The sky was always uniformly blue or, far more often, a single sheet of grey. I’d never noticed this before but it was one of those... ...full story at Black & White Cat

from Black & White Cat on Fri, Jun 12 2009

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