Photo: China's Rain-Free Olympics Plan Met With Skepticism

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An operator stands near artillery used to seed clouds at the Beijing Meteorological Bureau on July 19, 2007.

Efforts to modify the weather, such as a Chinese plan to seed clouds and produce rain before this summer's games, are unreliable and may be hampered by human-caused pollution, scientists said at a recent conference.

Photo by AP/Ng Han Guan

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