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Mystery of the Chinese zombie Yalies

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Associated Press/May 24, 2010 Future graduates wait for the procession to begin for commencement at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

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Consider the mystery of the Chinese Yale zombies. That’s “zombies” as in “zombie followers” on Sina Weibo — the hugely popular “weibo,” or microblogging, site that’s roughly akin to Twitter and has attracted more than 500 million followers since debuting in 2009.