Current TV's Sherif Soliman travels along the Three Gorges Dam Reservoir and does a commendable job of describing how life has changed for the 1.5 million people that were displaced by the project, which some experts have described as an environmental... ...full story at Shanghaiist
from Shanghaiist on Tue, Apr 01 2008
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