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(One) Legacy of the Beijing Olympics

March 3, 2010
By C. Custer

No, this isn’t about the gymnasts. The (Fake) Walls Come Tumbling Down Tiger Temple reported recently about one of the unintended aftereffects of Beijing’s rush to make itself pretty in the run-up to the Olympics in 2008: the fake walls constructed to make buildings look better in areas of the city expected to receive...
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