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NORAD tracks Santa's sleigh for a high-tech Ho Ho

Dec. 24, 2009
Even Santa Tweets. A military installation in Colorado has been issuing Christmas Eve reports of Santa Claus' progress to eager children for more than five decades. Now the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, uses more than a phone bank and...
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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