Beijing Lights Up Olympic Dream
      

From inside the 91,000-seat Bird’s Nest stadium, fireworks dazzled and the thunder of 2,008 performers drumming on traditional fou percussion instruments rolled throughout the stadium. High-tech special effects gave even the kitschiest subject matter a startling edge. An ode to China’s invention of movable type—ho hum, you might say— morphed into a vast sea of [...]
         

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