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...BEE STINGS Speed is key. Scrape the stinger out with a credit card or fingernail. Using tweezers could force more poison from the venom sac into the skin. But if tweezers are the best you can do, use them. Then apply an ice pack and watch for signs of an allergic reaction...
This may go some way toward explaining the unusually large amount of attention documentaries are receiving this summer. There are three among the 25 top-grossing movies now in theaters. ThinkFilm is a distributor of Spellbound, about contestants in a national spelling bee, which has grossed more than $2.6 million--a huge haul for a documentary. Spellbound follows the fortunes of eight kids, of very different backgrounds, from their victories in local spelling bees all the way to their participation in the nationals. It works "as human comedy and suspense," says Urman. The other currently hot docs, Capturing the Friedmans...
...their fates. Implicitly, Blitz seems to be asking but not quite answering this question: What's the point of all this? The ability to spell is a sign of neither virtue nor brains. It's just a skill some people develop and some don't, and the national spelling bee is, in its genteel way, rather like Survivor, a pseudo event engaging real emotions...
CARPENTER BEES Experts say the carpenter-bee population in the Midwest is up as much as 50% this year. The huge bees rarely sting, but they can drill holes a half-inch in diameter and a foot deep into the side of a house...
After his last opponent stumbled on gnathonic (definition: fawning), SAI GUNTURI correctly spelled rhathymia (light-heartedness) and pococurante (nonchalant) to win the 76th Scripps Howard Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Dallas said he will use the $12,000 cash prize to "buy a lot of video games...