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Census workers urge people to be counted

Jan. 6, 2010
The Rev. Norman Fong put an arm around an 80-year-old woman in San Francisco's Portsmouth Square on Tuesday and pleaded with her to fill out the 2010 census, a document she'd never heard of. In Cantonese, Fong told the woman who has lived in Chinatown for 50...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler