BEIJING (AP) -- China kicked off its National Day celebrations Monday by highlighting its hosting of the Beijing Olympics and the country's first spacewalk, two hard-won successes in a tumultuous year marked by natural disasters, ethnic unrest and... ...full story at AP
from AP on Mon, Sep 29 2008
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