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  • Shanghai Pudong

    Shanghai Owns the International PISA Science Math Test

    Posted on December 10, 2010 | 6 Comments
    Shanghai’s 15-year-olds topped those in every other jurisdiction in all three subjects,” he wrote on Flypaper, the Fordham Institute’s blog. “The 2009 testing cycle marked the first time that youngsters in China-proper participated. To be sure, it was only Shanghai, the country’s flagship city in so many ways, a single megalopolis on which Beijing has lavished much investment and attention, many favorable policies, and even (for China) a relatively high degree of freedom.

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  • The Oldest Man Alive is Asian – How old is he?

    The Oldest Man Alive is Asian – How old is he?

    Posted on September 18, 2008 | 9 Comments
    Imagine living through the entire 20th century and being able to tell your grandchildren about it. Or great-grandchildren for that matter. Tomoji Tanabe of Japan can and has probably already done so. With eight children, 25 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren, Tanabe turned

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  • Long Legs, Little Lad – World’s Smallest Man Under the Longest Legs

    Long Legs, Little Lad – World’s Smallest Man Under the Longest Legs

    Posted on September 17, 2008 | No Comments
    The Guinesss World Record’s smallest man,  He Pingping of Inner Mongolia, sits under the Guiness World Record’s longest legs of any female, Svetlana Pankratova of Russia, in London. -Associated Press-

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