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Kenya's Death Row Inmates Get Life Instead

Aug. 6, 2009
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki has said that commuting the sentences of the country's death row inmates will improve their mental health; skeptics say he just wants to put them to work
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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