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Mary Kay Magistad Reports The Chinese Government Plans

to finish the controversial Three Gorges Dam by 2009. The project will provide more power than any other dam in the world, but it will flood a huge area along the Yangtze River in central China...including sites containing artifacts from ancient Chinese cultures. Archaeologists want more time, and many, to save the priceless historical treasures.

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