For a bargain $110 per person, including hotels, meals and guides for a week, groups of 40 tourists will gambol through mechanized mine shafts, mephitic chemical plants and the .
The view from the bank stretches out over not the mephitic, litter-strewn depths that often characterize China's urban rivers, but water whose clarity is as arresting as its .
Tom Shales in Idaho Mountain Express and Guide Washington Post TV columnist Tom Shales describes cable TV's panelists as "a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots."