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Quick, name a euonym for REBECCA SEALFON, 13, of Brooklyn, N.Y. If you said "spelling master," you'd be right, and if you said "highly nervous and eccentric spelling master," you'd be even righter. Sealfon correctly spelled euonym (meaning: an appropriate name) to win the 1997 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee last week. The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate. Her final nine-round spelldown with Prem Murthy Trivedi, 11, of Howell, N.J., ended after he put an extra l in the word cortile (that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: What's in a nym? Plenty. Rebecca Sealfon, 13, correctly spelled "euonym" and claimed the trophy at the 70th National Spelling Bee in the nation's capital. The home-schooled Brooklynite takes home $5,000 in cash, a laptop computer, an encyclopedia and other gifts, plus a huge trophy and her requisite 15 minutes, which include a CNN interview Friday morning. Immediately upon hearing the word, which means a good name or appropriate name for a person, place, or thing, Rebecca knew she had it. Arms raised, she shrieked out each letter with arms raised, finally blurting...
...South Brunswick, N.J., the school system held a software fair and a pair of summer sessions exclusively for girls. "This is more insidious than a simple education problem," says Peggy Sealfon, director of the computer- equity project. "If girls shy away from computers, it could undermine their career opportunities...
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