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Green.view: Pay the piper

Nov. 10, 2008
Promises are easier to make than to pay forENVIRONMENTALISTS, sadly, did not feature among the many categories of American voters identified in exit polls, dissected by psephologists and psychoanalysed in election-night broadcasts. But there can be little doubt that the presidential candidate who...
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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