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REPORTING FROM ... THE BEIJING AIRPORT

By Luke Cyphers

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

One thing's for sure. The Olympics have put the excitement back into deplaning. And after 13 hours stuffed into an aluminum tube with hundreds of other fliers, a little excitement is welcome. Customs is easy enough, and the luggage is delayed long enough to tell you China is now a part of the modern world. The Beijing Terminal 3 is lovely, too, all gleaming and high-roofed, with its painted steel trusses and supports echoing the structure of a giant, sunlit bamboo palace. But the coolest th ...

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