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Toys, Birds Harmonized Amid Beijing Security Crackdown

In addition to taxi cabs, Reuters reports that even the pigeons of Beijing must adhere to heightened restrictions as officials in the Chinese capital take no chances ahead of next week’s 18th Party Congress: Li Zhonghe, 65, a retired construction worker, told Reuters he would have to keep his 40 to 50 pigeons in their coops when the congress starts. “There are currently some extra restr