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World's Shortest Man Dies

(March 15) -- He Pingping, the world's shortest man, has died. He was 21. The cherub-faced, 2-foot-5-inch Guinness World Record holder was in Rome for a TV show when he complained of chest pains. He was admitted to a hospital two weeks ago and died Saturday of what Guinness describes as "heart complications." "From the...

Mr. Tall Meets Mr. Small

(Jan. 19) – The tallest man on earth spent too much of his childhood in bed – and now he's making up for lost time. The world changed for Sultan Kösen last year after Guinness World Records declared him the tallest man in the world -- and the first 8-footer to come along in nearly two decades. "I always knew...