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Every host country wants its Olympic Games to be perfect. China is taking no chances, even using technology to control the weather. The plan is to use 21 stations around the city equipped with rockets containing pellets of silver iodide that will drain the clouds of their rain potential, or will trigger rain before the clouds reach the stadium. Is this kind of control a benign effort to ensure smooth running of the games or does it pose a potential environmental problem?
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