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Search continues for 2-month-old baby inside stolen vehicle [UPDATE: suspect turns himself in, admits killing baby] Posted: 05 Mar 2013 08:35 AM PST Other than getting caught, this is probably a carjacker's worst nightmare. (And a parent's, too.) "Police in Changchun are searching for a 2-month-old baby who was in a[n] SUV that was stolen on Monday morning," reports China Daily . One imagines no carjacker ever envisions himself classified as a kidnapper. The SUV was eventually found in front of a school, but the baby, as of Tuesday morning, remains missing. The traffic department of Changchun in Jilin province says 3,500 police have been mobilized. The silver gray Toyota RAV 4, with plate number JI AMM102, was stolen at about 7:20 am near a road crossing in Changchun. The baby was wrapped in a pink blanket, according to the city's traffic police department. The baby's father, surnamed Xu, said he parked the car beside his grocery store in the

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China’s Biggest Problem? Too Many Men Photo: The Great Hall of the People and the Forbidden City, by Bill Perry/Shutterstock Chinese Report Warns of Android Invasion Wen Jiabao Steps Down to Uncertain Legacy Tibetan Writer Honored by U.S. State Department CCTV Finds Toys Still Made from Medical Waste China’s Black Jail Industry Sensitive Words: NPC Shockers and Disappointments Hopes Fade Over Sino-Japan Summit In Barcelona, Huawei Tells its Story China’s Biggest Problem? Too Many Men Posted: 05 Mar 2013 11:36 PM PST Rob Brooks, professor of evolution at New South Wales University in Australia, looks to the surplus of men over women in China as a potential threat to social stability . From CNN: A long history of son preference, particularly among the Han majority, has led to female infanticide and the neglect of daughters in some parts of China. But in recent decades, the spread of cheap ultrasound (enabling sex-determi