EIGHT IS ENOUGH

Bush defends decision to attend Olympics opening

The Zoner posted 7/6/2008 from news.yahoo.com

He defended his decision to attend the opening ceremonies next month despite boycott plans by other leaders over China's human rights record. "The Chinese people are watching very carefully about the decisions by world leaders, and I happen to believe that not going to the opening ceremony for the games would be an affront to the Chinese people."

China Needs Water!

twinkle709 posted 7/6/2008 from www.unmadeinchina.org

According to the World Health Organization, 700 million Chinese citizens lack healthy running water. Today, over half the population of China consumes drinking water which is contaminated with high levels of industrial pollutants and animal and human excrement. The water quality of most Chinese rivers, lakes and groundwater is substandard and hazardous to human health, due to industrial and ...

LeBron. Phelps. Sercombe?

And One posted 7/6/2008 from www.bthesite.com

Matthew Sercombe has been training for more than two decades for an opportunity like this. He’s battled through intense heat, grueling 12-hour-plus days and high-pressure situations to become one of the best among his peers. So when he was asked to represent the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China, the 39-year-old Charles Village resident jumped at the chance.

In China even the Clouds are a State Secret

twinkle709 posted 7/6/2008 from www.unmadeinchina.org

An immense cloud of yellow dust originating from the deserts of northern China and Mongolia is in the process of taking its annual trip east, where it will arrive in Japan and South Korea with its toxic cargo. The yellow dust season that runs from March to May would only be of interest to meteorologists were it not for the fact that its route passes through some of the Chinese regions ...

NBC Plans New Olympic TV Channels - 2008 Olympics – Sports and News from China – The New York Times

SPORTSbyBROOKS found this 7/6/2008 on olympics.blogs.nytimes.com

NBC Universal, which will broadcast the Beijing Games in the United States, will start four new dedicated cable channels in August that could be available to 80 million TV households, company officials said. One channel will be devoted exclusively to ...