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The 50 Best Inventions of the Year

Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are 2010's biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts

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ASIA

The Searchers

Beginning in the late 1980s, countless children in China have been kidnapped and sold to other families. Many victims are now seeking their true parents and siblings. Here is one man's story