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announced last week that tickets for the 2008 Olympics will cost just 30% of the price of the 2004 games. Entrance to events will range from 30 to 1,000, admission to the opening ceremonyfrom 200 to 5,000 and tickets for the closing ceremony 150 to 3,000.

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Other criticism of the 2008 Beijing Olympics pales in comparison to the newest shocker: Athletes will not compete in the nude, even though the Greeks originally competed with nary a loincloth. Viewers and gods alike will be forced to imagine the glistening, olive-oiled bodies under mounds of confining cloth. Oh China! What have you done to our beloved games? If we wanted to watch a bunch of never-nudes, we’d watch some cheap Roman rip-off. Boycott?

A balanced commentary which suggests that Jack Cafferty's comments on CNN were cheap and offensive but that Chinese should grow up and realize that he represents only himself.

Chinese blogger Beijing Fish is tired of people who use cheap ways of drawing attention to themselves. She believes that their antics are the result of having no talent and feeling inferior.

Why YouTube could be a cheap, highly visible savior to any Games-sponsoring company in China trouble

Just how real is China’s renewable energy revolution? It may be manufacturing a lot of cleantech goods, but the extent of domestic uptake leaves more to be desired. At the same time, global supply chains face the increasing strain of sustained high oil prices. What does the end of cheap oil, decades of which has subsidized international trade, mean for China’s new green path?

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That's right, the Chinese have out-done themselves. No longer are cheap DVDs and designer watches the only thing that the country is pirating en masse - they've copied the architecture of a scenic British town, right down to the details of the phone booths and W. Churchill statue.