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Gmail knocked offline for `majority' of users

Sep. 1, 2009
Google Inc.'s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in a severe outage that the company said affected a "majority" of users. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the disruption, which led Gmail users to get an "Unable to reach Gmail" error message as...
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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