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14 Nov 2007
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A woman works in the fields above a tributary of the Yangtze River in Chenjialing Village, where cracks are appearing in most of the houses, in Hubei Province near the town of Badong in central China November 5, 2007. The slopes of Chenjialing Village have shuddered and groaned lately, cracking and warping homes and fields, and making residents fear the banks of China's swelling Three Gorges Dam may hold deadly perils. Picture taken November 5, 2007. To match feature CHINA-THREEGORGES/ REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA)
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Cooling towers of a power plant are seen behind apartment blocks in Xiahuayuan, Hebei province, November 21, 2007. Pollution in China's vast countryside is threatening health, water and arable land, the government said on Wednesday, vowing to stop toxic industries shifting pollution to rural areas. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause (CHINA)



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