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China Makes Artificial Rain for Beijing

 
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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 3:50 am    Post subject: China Makes Artificial Rain for Beijing Reply with quote

China Makes Artificial Rain for Beijing
Fri May 5, 4:33 PM ET

BEIJING - Chinese weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Beijing's heaviest rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from China's capital, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office fired seven rocket shells containing 163 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide over the city's skies on Thursday, Xinhua said.

The reaction that occurred brought as much as four-tenths of an inch of rain, the heaviest rainfall this year, helping to "alleviate drought, add soil moisture and remove dust from the air for better air quality," Xinhua said.

Though unusual in many parts of the world, China has been tinkering with artificial rainmaking for decades, using it frequently in the drought-plagued north. Last month, another artificial rainfall was generated to clear Beijing after the city suffered some of the fiercest dust storms this decade.
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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So how do you decide which words to bold, which to make larger, and which to underline?
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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 4:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hater Depot wrote:
So how do you decide which words to bold, which to make larger, and which to underline?


Much in the same way i suppose you decide what questions to ask.
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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You throw darts at a bulletin board too?
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