Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as nerds

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address. Today I have had about 50 rubbish emails from you. This is a waste
of resources - each time an email is sent it takes a tiny amount of
electricity but if you times it by 50 per day and then by the thousands of
people you are sending this to - its contributes to the greenhouse effect
and global warming.
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From: "Dennis Baron" <debaron at UIUC.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: Bee Season: The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well
as nerds


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> Bee Season:  The annual spelling bee brings out protesters as well as =20=
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> nerds
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> This week protesters from the American Literacy Society and London=92s
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> Simplified Spelling Society picketed outside Washington D. C.=92s Grand
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> Hyatt Hotel, while inside, 286 students in grades 5 through 8 =20
> competed in the 80th annual Scripps Spelling Bee.
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> Protesters carried signs reading =93Let=92s End the I in Friend=94 and
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> =93Enuf is Enuf,=94 hoping to draw attention to their cause, the reform
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> of English spelling.
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> It=92s a good cause, though hopeless.  The history of the spelling-=20
> reform movement is long, distinguished, and totally ineffectual.  =20
> Reforms popped up as early as the 12th century and they=92ve continued
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> through the present, though until recently spelling reformers didn=92t
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> take to the streets to get their point across.
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