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Soldier’s tale helps explain long absences
Korey Outerbridge was in Iraq when the idea came to him: He needed to write a children’s book. “We had phone tents when we deployed, for soldiers to call back to the states,“ Outerbridge said. Crossword-puzzle and race-car magazines lay scattered about the phone tents. Soldiers would thumb through them while they waited to contact to their families, the 29-year-old Newport News native recalled. |
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A way with Words: Scrabble goes hardcore
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A flair for words will only get you so far in the competitive Scrabble world. To compete with the best area players at the popular crossword board game, you need much more than word knowledge, said Dominick Mancine, one of the directors of the Boulder Scrabble Club. The best also are experts at anagramming -- unscrambling letters to create words. They're spatial thinkers, knowing the best ... |
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Saturday Crossword
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As you sit down for breakfast, why not test your knowledge of Habs history with a Canadiens crossword? Don't get discouraged, there will be another one next weekend and every Saturday after that. |
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