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NKorea lauds soldiers who nabbed reporters

Dec. 25, 2009
North Korea has commended two soldiers who apprehended a pair of U.S. journalists earlier this year along the country's border with China. Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, captured in March while reporting a story on North Korean defectors, were sentenced...
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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