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Two Paths, Same Fate for Reporters Facing Prison

Jun. 9, 2009
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two Current TV employees sentenced this week to a North Korean labor camp, led very different lives in California.
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler