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Beijing - Smoke Clears. Dust Does Not - Travel  

Walkers in the Olympic Green Zone, where industrial pollutants have abated but desert dust remains.

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The authorities have announced an asthmatic's dream of bold measures: closing coal-burning power plants and factories, halting major construction projects, mandating European Union auto-emissions levels, instituting an odd-even license plate rationing system to halve the number of vehicles on the road during the Games. Smoking is banned in Olympic venues and even in taxis, a measure enjoying astonishing compliance in this smoker's paradise.

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