'Dad' Pencils in Deal at Spelling
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Spelling Television has cut a deal with Tom Stern to option his newspaper comic strip "CEO Dad" with an eye toward developing a comedy series.
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Blog: Answers plans to capitalize on search magic of the word "dictionary" by adding its content to Lexico Publishing properties.
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"Father Knows Less" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 272 pages, $24.95), by Wendell Jamieson: Kids ask questions, and little ones ask them endlessly. Answering them will strain a parent's knowledge as well as his or her patience.
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 16--RALEIGH -- To most people, a typo is an annoyance. To Aly Khalifa, it's a (key)stroke of luck.
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Like a lot of dads, Zef Marku took his son, Gentian, to work. And being one of the lucky dads, his son wanted to follow in his footsteps.
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A family that claimed they were defamed in the best-selling book "Running with Scissors" has settled a lawsuit against the writer and his publisher.
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Corrects spelling of name to Schulte in paragraph 3 and makes conform throughout.
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Children read better when taught with a new system of phonics that builds on their own diction, researchers say.
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The online juggernaut could pick up some ink smudges overseas.
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After more than three rounds of spelling such words as &quot;spheterize,&quot; &quot;ibidem&quot; &quot;lipogrammatism&quot; and &quot;obstreperous,&quot; 46 elementary and middle school students remained Wednesday at the end of the first day of tense competition in the annual national spelling bee.
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Students' parents are now picking up the bill for custom-written essays for university courses.
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Evan O'Dorney always eats fish before his spelling bees. The brain food apparently has served him well: He's the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.
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When a sheet of paper covered in doodles was found on Tony Blair's desk at the Davos World Economic Forum, handwriting experts delighted in analysing it, concluding the Prime Minister was stressed and under pressure.
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By LESLIE BRODY, STAFF WRITER  While 9-year-old twin girls race to finish a word search puzzle, their big sister pecks at a laptop to research George Washington Carver, the African-American inventor and agriculture expert.
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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A-n-x-i-o-u-s. There&#039;s even more reason than usual for the 275 children here for the national spelling bee Wednesday and Thursday to feel that way. As if the competition to be crowned America&#039;s best speller isn&#039;t intense enough, this year it includes the first live, prime-time network broadcast of the finals.
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Film-maker Karan Johar was so touched by the story of a dyslexic child in Aamir Khan's directorial   debut Taare Zamen Par that he now wants to be a father.