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14 Nov 2007
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A man smokes a small pipe as he walks up a path to his apartment block in old Badong County in Hubei Province in central China November 5, 2007. To make way for rising waters, the government has already resettled whole towns and villages to higher slopes or distant cities and provinces -- an exodus that has brought protests of official corruption and inadequate compensation from displaced people, many of them poor farmers. Picture taken November 5, 2007. To match feature CHINA-THREEGORGES/MIGRATION REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA)
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A woman wears a veil to cover her face on a cold and windy Autumn day in Beijing November 19, 2007. Temperatures in China's capital continue to get colder as the winter months approach. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA)



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