My story about China's weather-modification program and the plan to prevent rain at the Olympics is in the April/May issue of Plenty magazine. Through bronchitis and an international phone line, I talked to New Hampshire Public Radio about it.
Meanwhile, local officials announced that the rain-makers were behind the first big rainfall of the spring. The story says Beijing and Hebei used artillery shells and rockets to seed the clouds, which (if correct) would be a departure--the head of Beijing's Weather Modification Office told me last year that the artillery doesn't go into service till May 1. Before that, they're supposed to use the less dramatic silver-iodide smoker stove.