china's farmers make rain


	china's farmers make rain

mvonallmen

7-26-2007 9:27 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/40f06379-35a8-4109-85dc-9829db49ef51/24E3F11F-C83F-47EC-8B4B-B11A16812911/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IG13Ad01.html" href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IG13Ad01.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.atimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IG13Ad01.html"><DIV>BEIJING - After weeks of watching the 
                              mercury soar, hardening the already cracked earth 
                              of their wilting orchards and farms, a group of 
                              farmers on the outskirts of Beijing gather in the 
                              Fragrant Hills that line the western fringe of 
                              China's capital city. Unlike their ancestors, they 
                              do not assemble to perform a rain dance or gather 
                              in a temple to pray to the Lord Buddha to bring 
                              the rain. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IG13Ad01.html">What they launch 
                              are not bullets or missiles but chemical pellets. 
                              Their targets are not</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IG13Ad01.html"><DIV>
																	enemy 
                              aggressors but wisps of passing cloud that they 
                              aim to "seed" with silver-iodide particles around 
                              which moisture can then collect and become heavy 
                              enough to fall. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IG13Ad01.html"><DIV>The farmers are part of 
                              the biggest rain-making force in the world: 
                              China's Weather Modification Program. 
                              </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IG13Ad01.html">The farmers are paid 
                              about US$100 a month for their cannon and 
                              rocket-launching duties, which they perform about 
                              40 times a year.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/24E3F11F-C83F-47EC-8B4B-B11A16812911/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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