BEE CONTESTANTS KNOW PRESSURE IS PRONOUNCED; BUT GARRETT BIEDERMANN HAS STUDIED HARD FOR NATIONAL COMPETITION. IT STARTS TODAY.(Local)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: June 1, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Sterling Gray Staff writer

During the past couple of weeks, Garrett Biedermann has spent about an hour a night writing vocabulary words.

He'd write 60 words five times each in an effort to remember how to spell them. Then he'd spend some time spelling another set of words from another book the E.W. Scripps Co. gave him.

After all, he's No. 158 in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which starts today in Washington, D.C. The scope of the even...

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