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Australian doctors say China holding back pollution data

Chinese organizers have been reluctant to release findings of air pollution tests conducted a year before the Beijing Games, medical advisers to Australia's Olympic team said Monday. Chinese authorities took air quality readings at Beijing in August when... ...full story at USA Today

from USA Today on Mon, Nov 19 2007

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