Beijing Olympics countdown: air quality dept

The countdown clock on the highway in from Beijing Capital Airport says 379 days before the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony. Or maybe 378. In any case, just over a year to deal with situations like this:



View to the south, July 26, 8:30am, from apartment building in the Chaoyang Park neighborhood of Beijing. The obscured buildings in the "distance" are perhaps 100 yards away.


Another View From My Window {tm} shot after the jump.

James Fallows is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and author of the newsletter Breaking the News.