The environmental cost of China's economic growth
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A Chinese cyclist rides past a cloud of steam billowing from underground in Beijing. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said some events at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing could be postponed if pollution was extremely bad, in what would be an unprecedented move to protect athletes' health.
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