This is getting out of hand. The education level like the 10 foot basketball rim height needs to be adjusted since we are being deluged with 7 foot tall brains
Rathma and her husband, Vishwanath, who both work in the software industry, emigrated from near Mangalore, India, in 2002. Indian-American children have dominated both the geography bee and the Scripps National Spelling Bee in recent years. Vishwanath said the trend can be attributed to coming from a country of 1.2 billion people.
"That brought us the competitive spirit," he said. "If we don't work hard and put forth our best effort, we can't succeed in this world."
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11 comments:
With a name like Sathwik Karnik you better know how to spell.
A (too) quick read made me think for a moment that he had beaten Conrad Oberhaus Lincolnshire III for the crown.
Our aristocrats are failing us.
Too bad he won the geography bee not the spelling bee, huh Nonapod?
:)
Wow, I fail at reading comprehension. Words am hard.
It was also a big Confederate military hospital in Richmond.
At least I know where Plainville is. There's a good Irish pub in Plainville: The Chieftain.
This is getting out of hand. The education level like the 10 foot basketball rim height needs to be adjusted since we are being deluged with 7 foot tall brains
I blame the Asians.
And the home-schooled.
Rathma and her husband, Vishwanath, who both work in the software industry, emigrated from near Mangalore, India, in 2002. Indian-American children have dominated both the geography bee and the Scripps National Spelling Bee in recent years. Vishwanath said the trend can be attributed to coming from a country of 1.2 billion people.
"That brought us the competitive spirit," he said. "If we don't work hard and put forth our best effort, we can't succeed in this world."
Vishwanath said the trend can be attributed to coming from a country of 1.2 billion people.
He then named them.
Soledad O'Brien's soft landing!
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