Air Pollution Prompts Am Expats ro Leave Beijing

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Don Lee, As Beijing Air Pollution Worsens, Some American Expats Clear Out. Business opportunities abound in China, but some US executives working in the capital say the health of their families is more important. Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2013
http://www.latimes.com/news/nati ... ina-escape-20130620,0,1354486.story
("Wolf had grown up in smog-choked Los Angeles in the 1970s, but even that wasn't nearly as bad as Beijing today")

Note:
(a) ""Dad, when you were growing up, did you ever have PE outdoors?"

PE = physical education ("體育課" in Taiwan)
(b)
(i) Channel Islands Harbor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_Harbor
(in the town of Oxnard, California; The US Army Corps of Engineers formed the harbor in 1960)
(ii) Channel Islands of California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands,_California