Monday: Taken from a Beijing apartment on Aug. 4:
Tuesday: Proving that the weather and pollution levels are completely unpredictable, the weather of Aug. 5 was sunny and clear:
A silver lining to all this pollution pandemonium? After the Olympic games China will start to monitor two pollutants not currently figured into the Air Pollution Index: ozone and small particulate matter PM2.5.
And James Fallows of the Atlantic reports that at least one of the new four subway lines in Beijing works smoothly.
