 | A railroad worker looks out from a railway bridge near Lhasa, Tibet, western China, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005. Construction crews working at altitudes so high that they breathed bottled oxygen have finished laying all but the last 70 kilometers (45 miles) of a controversial railway linking Tibet to the rest of China, officials said Wednesday. The railway linking the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, to the western Chinese city of Xining, some 1,956 kilometers (1,220 miles) away, is part of efforts by the government to bind this Himalayan region more closely to the rest of China. |
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