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Beijing steps up battle against smog

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer BEIJING – Twenty-two days before the Olympic Games open here, the capital is awash in smog – an unseasonably thick haze that seems part pollution, part humidity. Adrienne Mong / NBC News A typical mor... ...full story at NBC World Blog

from NBC World Blog on Fri, Jul 18 2008

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