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Lights out for Shanghai?

It's been a scorcher of a week and those little AC units are working on overtime. So much so, that it threatens to plunge us all into darkness. Okay, maybe the situation hasn't gotten that melodramatic, but according to Xinhua News we used a whopping... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Fri, Jul 25 2008

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