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By Thomas Hazlett

Published: November 29 2007 19:15 | Last updated: November 29 2007 19:15

The $100 laptop for kids is here.  And the good news is that it sells for just $200. 

That is close enough for charitable work and MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte ought be toasted.  His ambitious plan to distribute millions of light, energy-conscious notebook computers to children in developing countries – One Laptop Per Child, or OLPC – is already brightening some lives.

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