China's countdown to dam deluge Posted by Scott Manning on January 21, 2002 | Comments (0)

Chinese engineers blew up buildings in a Yangtze River town, beginning a new phase in the world's biggest water control project, the flooding of the controversial Three Gorges dam reservoir.

Nearby, archaeologists cut away 1,000-year-old stone inscriptions from mountainsides prior to moving them to higher ground to escape the rising waters. Full Story...