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CHINA - STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF US


Well now. We were all set to just lay into last night's 60 Minutes for taking a story we did over a year ago and acting like they'd come up with it all on their own. We were literally chomping at the bit (email us for pictures). But then we watched their story on the computer landfills of Guiyu all the way to the end and saw that they not only went out to the dump and got slightly knocked around by a bunch of local hotheads (which our writer avoided by being more sneaky), they also showed up some Coloradan rah-brah who figured out he could make a ton of money convincing guilty middle-class people that he would recycle their old computers into shiny little plastic-and-cricuitboard dolls for puppy-faced Venezuelan street urchins instead of shipping them off to China (which is what he was doing). And now here we are telling you to watch the whole thing on our blog. Damn.