Smog may blanket Olympics
Beijing, the site of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, is one of the most polluted cities in the world. On any given day, a brown haze drowns out the skyline and sickens those with asthma and other respiratory diseases.
Naturally, the city is trying to clean up before hundreds of thousands of visitors converge there for the biggest sporting event in history (as it’s being touted).
Officials in China are mandating that factories close in the weeks leading up to the games in an effort to cut the smog. The government is also enforcing strict automotive laws: 3.3 million private vehicles on the roads of Beijing will be cut by 50 percent as cars with license plates ending in even numbers alternate every day with those with plates ending in odd numbers.
By the way, the Olympics begin on Aug. 8.
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