Beijing Thaws
May 3rd 2010 It took a while to come but Spring did finally arrive in Beijing. One thing I noticed about spring here is the occasional sand-storm, which coats the entire city in a layer of dusty sand and gives the sky a peculiar orange tint, the likes of which I have never seen. They do say that Beijing's future existence is threatened by the advance of the Gobi desert. In fact, one of the environmental eng
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