"Thousands of westerners are about to converge on China for the 2008 Olympics. When they log on to the Internet there, they may discover that connections — especially to certain foreign news sites — won't work. They'll be bumping up against what protesters have called the "Great Firewall of China."
Many news sites move articles into data bases after a period of time and then offer them for sale, in the process changing the URLs that link to them. Or they require registration. Thus, we provide a link to the front page of the news website and the information necessary to find the story on that site, rather than a direct link to the article.
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