City boasts less spitting, better queuing - Yahoo! News: "BEIJING (Reuters) - Less spitting, better queuing and cleaner streets show Beijing has become more 'civilized,' but the city still has to fine-tune its etiquette to attain Olympic standards, Xinhua news agency said Friday, citing a new study."
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Fred Pilot sent this along. I guess this means that a municipal government can get its act together. But with the Chinese you never know what happened to the people who didn't shape up. There might be a labor camp somewhere full of former Beijing sidewalk-spitters.