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Some honors are dubious indeed. For Huang Kaiquan, a forty-year-old man, living with his mother in a village in southwestern China, the title of world’s smallest man seems well within reach.

Huang is a former actor/magician who stands just less than two feet, six inches, which is only 1.4 cm (about half an inch) higher than the former world’s shortest man, He Pingping, who was 29 inches tall. Pingping died of chest problems last March at the age of 21 while filming a television program in Italy for the Guinness Book of Records.