Hi

My wife and I went to China a couple of years ago (see http://gardkarlsen.com/china_beijing.htm) and one of the things we noticed was the constant spitting. I guess I can't blame the people because there was a lot of dust in the air...I won't go into detailed how it looked when I blew my nose after walking around in Beijing all day . I read in the paper yesterday that the Chinese authoreties are trying to get people to stop spitting everywhere in connection with the Olympics and people will be fined about 7 $ if they spit and get caught. Instead they will get little bags to spit in

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Gard
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Hi

Found an article about it by the way: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/01/ap/strange/mainD8G2OUEO0.shtml

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Gard
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