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...time TV, but this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee was an improbable nail-biter. One of the 13 finalists got reinstated after judges made a spelling error, a Canadian came in second--who knew foreign kids could compete?--and KATHARINE CLOSE, 13, prevailed in her fifth year. The eighth-grader from Spring Lake, N.J., won with ursprache. It means protolanguage. Now try to use it in conversation...
...more members of the family had fallen ill with avian flu. The first woman died on May 4 and was buried before any tissue samples could be taken, but doctors were able to confirm H5N1 in the remaining family members, all but one of whom have died. An eighth family member, a 32-year-old man, became sick on May 15 and died May 22; he may have caught the virus while caring for his infected 10-year-old son, who died of the disease...
...that her parents are both away. It's actually her friend Callie's house, and they call their bedroom the hotel because it has twin beds side by side. Callie's mother Cecilia, whose husband is also in the gulf, offered to take Lauren in so she could finish eighth grade with the rest of her class, before going off to spend the summer with her grandparents in Colorado. There is no telling when Mom and Dad will be home, but this way Lauren at least gets to stay a little normal a little while longer. "I like sleeping over...
...You’ve got to give it up to Cornell,” Reid said. “They sold the farm to get lane one, and they won the heat at a 38 [stroke rating].” And as it turned out, Cornell—seeded eighth in the varsity race—saved its best for last, both during the EARC season and at Sprints. The Cornell varsity stormed out to a commanding lead within the first 500 meters in the varsity final, turning one of Sprints’ most contested races into a struggle...
After the dust had settled on Franklin Field in Pennsylvania on Sunday, the Harvard women had taken seven and the men eighth at the outdoor Heptagonals Championships. The Cornell men and women won the Ivy League with 152.5 and 129 points, respectively. The Crimson men finished the last day of the meet with 17, while the women had 64.50. The latter had a very successful day on Sunday, with two athletes emerging as Heptagonals champions. Captain Laura Maludzinski took home her second consecutive Heptagonals crown in the 1500 meter run with a dramatic finish. She beat out Nyam Kagwima...