Communications Major

You may have missed this item from June 2011, when it was revealed that a 17-year-old Chinese boy sold one of his kidneys for $3,500 so he could afford a then-new iPad 2 tablet. Now suffering from a renal problem brought on by the surgery, the teen has cooperated with police to identify the others involved in this organ trading scam.

More than 16 percent of all online messages in China get deleted, according to a study by the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. But crafty bloggers use terms like "buying soy sauce," "Mayor Lymph" and "minor collision" as a way around the censorship.