Evan won a trophy and a $35,000 prize, plus a $5,000 scholarship, a $2,500 savings bond and a set of reference works.
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What?
No iPod or Blackberry or PS2?
Great job, Evan!
was this American dollars or Canadian dollars? Either way great job, I think I saw something about this earlier. Damn when I was that age I could barely spell Encyclopedia.
Legendary Kenyan distance runner Kip Keno won three Meredes at three different track meets. Later, when a reporter visited his home for an interview, not a Mercedes was to be seen. Why? asked the incredulous reporter. "Because one does not remain a distance runner by riding around in a mercedes." He had given the cars away.