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Pitching in with pink lemonade

Oct. 27, 2009
DeSoto cabbie Tara Housman picked up a fare last week who told her he'd just arrived in town from Minneapolis. Attendants on his flight had gone up and down the aisles selling pink lemonade for $2 a glass. Proceeds, they said, would go for breast cancer...
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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