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  'Captain America' Wins Worldwide Rock Paper Scissors Competition

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:26 PM ET

  a 22-year-old employee of the Aeropostale at his local mall, bested 512 competitors who flew in from all over the world, including Australia, China and Mexico, and in the end squared off against his best bud, one of five teammates who participated in the competition from his hometown. Fo Read More

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  Faking It

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:23 PM ET

  Insider reports that if you go to China, the producer of many of these fake brand names, it’s an intellectual property lawyer’s smorgasbord.In China, Chuck Taylor apparently translates to Monica Sun, who is putting out a high-top shoe suspiciously similar to the Converse All-Star called th Read More

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  President Obama Talks Twitter

  By Marc Hertz | Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:56 PM ET

  418 tweets (so far) weren't written by him. Are we supposed to believe that he's busy or something?This little nugget came out during his trip to China on Monday, according to the New York Times. The president, at a town hall meeting with students in Shanghai, was asked via the Internet Read More

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  Northern Forests Pack More Cooling Punch

  By David Bois | Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:00 AM ET

  in places such as Russia, Canada and Europe would achieve a greater net temperature reduction compared to new forest plantings in India, Brazil and China.Their number crunching considered the cooling that would result from theoretical amounts of carbon dioxide the new forests would lock up i Read More

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  Announcing the Global Center for Women's Land Rights

  By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:12 AM ET

  the Omidyar Network has donated $9 million to RDI, which will support a three-year program to secure the land rights of 9 million families in India, China and Sub-Saharan Africa. Photo courtesy of Praziquantel vi Read More

  More like this in: Clinton Global Initiative, Africa, India, Poverty, United Nations, Asia, Agriculture, Farming, Women, Sub-Saharan Africa, Farmers
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  Birds and the Bees Do It. (And Fiddler Crabs. And Fruit Bats.)

  By David Bois | Thu Nov 5, 2009 11:15 AM ET

  with her back to the male, and the undeniably limber she-bat is able to apply mid-coital oral stimulation to the male. The team of biologists from China and England whose findings are published in PLoS ONE have determined that there is a direct causal relationship between the incorporation o Read More

  More like this in: ABC, Sex, Australia, Asia, New Scientist, Science, Life & Style, Environment, Innovation & Discovery, Life Sciences, Animals & Pets, Relationships
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  The Brief 10/21: Greener China, Surviving Products, Hope for Healing

  By Caroline Walker | Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:50 AM ET

  All that and more, only at Tonic!Good news? If you're a Yankees fan, yes. (Angels, cover your eyes.)Big step toward greening construction in China. A new tower block leads the way.The world's population won't stop booming. UK is asked to help figure out how to feed the massive masses.No Read More

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  Treasure Hunting

  By Courtney Rubin | Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:41 PM ET

  newspaper. "But based on our rough calculations, about 1.5 million relics are housed in more than 2,000 museums in 47 countries."In recent years China has become increasingly interested in its missing treasures. In March, a Chinese collector sabotaged the auctioning of two bronze heads take Read More

  More like this in: The Telegraph, France, Museums, Beijing, University of Chicago, Harvard University, British Museum, China Daily, Yves Saint Laurent, Sabotage, Library of Congress
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  Celebrating World Food Day

  By Ben Corbett | Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:09 PM ET

  the number one position out of 29 nations ranked, most notably for reducing child malnutrition by 73 percent over the past six years. Meanwhile, China placed second because it "cut hunger numbers by 58 million in ten years through strong state support for smallholder farmers."Vietnam ranke Read More

  More like this in: United States, Farmers, Agriculture, Brazil, Italy, New Zealand, Vietnam, Ghana, Denmark, Ireland, Malawi
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  Fish Pedicures No More?

  By Jac Chebatoris | Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:15 PM ET

  in Asia, made its way to the United States about a year ago via a salon owner in Alexandria, Virginia who discovered the treatment during a trip to China. Once Diane Sawyer plunged her own tootsies into a doctor-fish (tiny carp, really) filled basin on Good Morning America, the regimen quickl Read More

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