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I was a little surprised when roaming around Beijing over the weekend to see a new construction site emblazoned with the Olympics motto "One World, One Dream". Olympic slogans have been in the news lately in Chicago where they realized the original... ...full story at Modern Lei Feng

from Modern Lei Feng on Tue, Mar 17 2009

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