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ARMLESS MAN ARRESTED FOR DRIVING WITH HIS FEET. Thanks 'danceswithshadows'. Chinese police got a surprise when they pulled over a brand new 4x4 for a routine check - the driver had no arms.
Zing Shen, 42, was steering the vehicle with his feet and was amazed when officers decided issue him with a public safety summons.
He told the traffic officers he had been driving like that for years after losing both arms below the elbows in an industrial accident.

REPORTERS BLOW WHISTLE ON FOX NEWS VIDEO. ["about bovine growth hormone and the`FDA. Covering up health risks"---jmj].

SCHOOL DROP OFF IN CHINA. Thanks 'yopp'. For most parents the school-run may seem death-defying, but it usually only consists of a quick drive or walk to the gates.
So spare a thought for the families of Gulucan village in West China, who take their lives in their hands every day with a a school walk which involves navigating a narrow path carved into a 5,000-ft cliff-side.

LOOK. ZERO PAPER IN NEWSPAPER HERE. At Plastic Logic's factory in Dresden, British engineer Dean Baker shows me a new kind of newspaper.
What's new about it? Well, for a start there's no paper - it's electronic.
The device looks just like a table mat, it's as light as a magazine.

PETER KITCHENS:HOW CHINA HAS CREATED A NEW SLAVE RACE EMPIRE IN AFRICA. Thanks 'proximal2u' and 'aliasinkhorn'. Peking power: A Chinese supervisor cajoles local workers as they dig a trench in Kabwe, Zambia
These poor, hopeless, angry people exist by grubbing for scraps of cobalt and copper ore in the filth and dust of abandoned copper mines in Congo, sinking perilous 80ft shafts by hand, washing their finds in cholera-infected streams full of human filth, then pushing enormous two-hundredweight loads uphill on ancient bicycles to the nearby town of Likasi where middlemen buy them to sell on, mainly to Chinese businessmen hungry for these vital metals.

A MIRACLE BABY, WEIGHING LESS THAN 10 OUNCES, ONLY 9 1/2 INCHES LONG SURVIVES. At 18 months old, Amillia Taylor is already entering the terrible twos.
When life doesn't go her way, she stamps her little foot, pushes out her lower lip and makes her demands with a sweet baby lisp.
She is, her parents say with a smile, a 'proper little madam'. But it's a fighting spirit which has served Amillia well.
Because this bright, beguiling toddler was born at just 21 weeks and six days into her gestation - a whole two weeks before the existing abortion cut-off.

US SCHOOL DISTRICT TO BEGIN MICROCHIPPING STUDENTS. Thanks 'aliasinkhorn'. A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.
The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external device installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices.

ROYAL CARRIBEAN CRUISE SHIP CUT IN HALF TO ADD MORE ROOMS. It sounds like an unforgettable magic trick - sawing a cruise ship in half.
But this is no illusion, as the owners of this 916ft liner really did cut it open to extend its length by 73ft.
Such measures may seem extreme, but the £30million cost of the job is just a fraction of the £500million - and years of labour - needed to launch a new ship.