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TV Journalist Wounded in Iraq Returns to the War

Jul. 13, 2009
The ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff returned to Iraq on Monday for the first time since he was seriously injured there in 2006.
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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