Bejing 2008

a stadium for the Beijing Olympics.

China is gearing up for the Beijing Olympics. And by gearing up I mean scrambling to make the country look presentable. The lengths at which China is preparing for 'the games' is extensive.

--> China is pau$ing all construction
Month's before the August Olympics, China will stop all construction in the country in an attempt to ease the dust problem lingering in the local Beijing air. Beijing is supposedly one of the most polluted cities in the world; a problem that China would rather not advertise to the world in August. While the air might benefit from this temporary pause, how is this economic coma going to effect the local, national, or global (US) economy?

-->China is SEEDING its CLOUDS.
With the aid of scientific intervention China will prevent rainfall during the Beijing Olympics. This will be done by cloud-seeding, in which silver iodide is injected into the cloud, via airplane, in an attempt to prevent hail or rainfall from reaching the ground. Originally devised to prevent hail from ruining crops in the Kentucky fields, the seeding technique is now being applied to the flower beds in Beijing. Flowers that would normally be dead by August, will now be alive and ready to entertain the masses come August.