No marathon in the park- Shanghai'd indoors

Shanghai Warns Children to Stay Indoors on Severe Air Pollution - Bloomberg: "Shanghai warned children and the elderly to stay indoors as the level of the most harmful pollutants exceeded more than 10 times the level deemed safe by the World Health Organization.
The air pollution index in the nation’s commercial hub exceeded 300 as of 10 a.m., placing it in the “severe” range and the highest of six levels, the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center said on its website today. PM2.5 pollutants -- particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter that pose the biggest health risk -- reached 288.9 as of 8:27 a.m., more than 10 times the WHO threshold.
Heavy pollution may undermine Shanghai’s plans to attract foreign investment and multinational firms, as the city implements a free-trade zone as part of a broader goal to become a global financial and logistics center by 2020. Today’s smog warning comes a day after about 35,000 runners from 84 countries turned out for the 2013 Shanghai International Marathon, according to the People’s Daily newspaper."

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