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Flowers all the way for a green Games

BEIJING has prepared 40 million flowering plants to decorate streets and Olympic venues. "July and August are usually a hard time for flowers," Wang Sumei, vice director of the Beijing Landscape Forestation Bureau,... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Tue, Jul 22 2008

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