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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211141/Behold-latest-addition-novelty-fruit-market--5-pear-looks-like-baby-buddha.html"><H1>Enlightened Chinese farmer branches out by growing pears shaped like baby Buddha <BR /></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211141/Behold-latest-addition-novelty-fruit-market--5-pear-looks-like-baby-buddha.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/2A20B21D-5043-456D-9A59-ECFE6C8D24BF" alt="Hang time: Baby-shaped pears will soon be coming to a supermarket near you" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211141/Behold-latest-addition-novelty-fruit-market--5-pear-looks-like-baby-buddha.html"><P><FONT>A Chinese farmer has invented baby-shaped pears - and he is planning to export his novel idea over here.<BR /></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211141/Behold-latest-addition-novelty-fruit-market--5-pear-looks-like-baby-buddha.html"><FONT>Plucky farmer Gao Xianzhang has created 10,000 of the mini marvels this season and he plans to take the fruits of his labour to the UK and Europe.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211141/Behold-latest-addition-novelty-fruit-market--5-pear-looks-like-baby-buddha.html"><FONT>If the idea catches on, sales of the mini pears could hit the profits of British farmers who are already struggling to fend off sales of cheaper foreign produce in recession-hit Britain.<BR /></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211141/Behold-latest-addition-novelty-fruit-market--5-pear-looks-like-baby-buddha.html"><FONT>Despite their hefty cost of £5 each, locals in his home village of Hexia, in Hebia, northern China, have reportedly been snapping them up.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211141/Behold-latest-addition-novelty-fruit-market--5-pear-looks-like-baby-buddha.html"><FONT>'People seem to think they are cute or lucky and will buy them as soon as they're off the tree,' Gao explained.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211141/Behold-latest-addition-novelty-fruit-market--5-pear-looks-like-baby-buddha.html"><FONT>Luckily for Gao, he should have few problems getting his quirky shaped fruits past EU officials.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3869D2F4-6982-4DED-B8B1-AF47CD0A694F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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