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I'm back in Beijing! It looks just like San Francisco but smoggy, not foggy. Fortunately it rained a bit after I landed, which means that not all that muck in the air is smog. Anyways, the city is clearly being spruced up for the Olympics -- petunias and roses line major roads and have been planted...