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Across China’s Countryside, ‘Just Too Busy’ for Olympics

Edward Cody of the Washington Post went into the countryside of China to find out what people there think of the Olympics, and discovered they are too busy working the fields to care: About two-thirds of China’s 1.3 billion people have remained tied to farming villages, despite the economic boom of the last 30 years. Focused on their land and their crops, many of them have felt little in common with the glitter of the Olympics, the $40 billion makeover of Beijing and the nationalist