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Newest Kindle designed for larger formats

May. 6, 2009
Amazon's Kindle has proven there is a market for a portable e-book reading device. Now the Seattle online retailer is hoping a bigger version can draw in lovers of larger and more embattled print formats - newspapers, magazines and textbooks. Amazon unveiled...
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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