With month to go before Olympics, China has unfinished business

 
By The Associated Press
Published: July 8, 2008

BEIJING — With one month to go before the Olympics open on Aug. 8, China 's work is hardly complete.

The government needs to meet its pledge to deliver clean air in one of the world's most polluted cities, and must finish two new subway lines and a railway line. The 31 venues in Beijing are ready, and most have been for months.

But the most difficult promise to keep for the authoritarian government may be all...


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