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China should be an obvious beneficiary of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Scheme, which seeks to provide robust $100 portable Internet computers to children in developing countries. Behind the headlines of double digit growth and urban prosperity, two thirds of Chinese still live in the countryside and two hundred million people earn less than a dollar a day. Still, the Chinese government has not signed up to this project.

Shanghaiist loves Bao Xishun, the world's tallest man. Our favourite newly-wed has previously been featured on Shanghaiist for the bizarre use of his long limbs to extract plastic from a dolphin's gullet.