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76 - Read and Spell Lesson	R&S 76 Lesson Forum	Freeloaders A grandma, out-of-patience with her freeloading family, writes to “Dear Abby” for advice: “My 43-year old daughter and three granddaughters (7, 8, and 11) and son-in-law have been guests in my house for six months. They had been evicted from ...	1

77 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 77	Coach Dies Hall-of-Fame 49ers Coach Bill Walsh, who led San Francisco to three Super Bowl titles, died Monday in Palo Alto, California. He was 75 and had been diagnosed with leukemia. “It’s sad,” said Marv Levy. “You realize it’s inevitable, but it’s still ...	0

78 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 78	Garage Sale The Zonta Club is holding a garage sale Saturday at Cottell Park for a worthy cause—to provide local college scholarships for women age 25 and older. “We hope that everyone will turn out,” said club president Laura Delaney. “If you do, we plan to ...	0

79 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 79	“Fat Flu” Harvard researchers recently said fat spreads “from person to person like a fashion or germ.” This first-of-its-kind study discovered that married people get fat together. (Who knew?) And it found that fat people often have fat friends. ...	0

80 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 80	Dear Abby: Our son Danny has a girlfriend whom he has been seeing for more than a year. She’s 16. She’s nice enough, but she’s very shy around us. She will be quiet as a church mouse unless we say something. Then she will smile and speak cordially in ...	0

81 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 81	Community Forum Many newspapers have a page where community members can voice their own opinions. Dianna H., from Liberty Township, writes: “If I wake up tomorrow morning and find that my catalytic converter has been stolen from under my car in the drivew...	0

82 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 82	Minimum-Wage Hike Is this sarcastic, or what? I read in a Chicago newspaper that after the hourly federal minimum wage was raised from $5.15 to $5.85, families across the country were still celebrating the historic increase by running their electric fans, buyin...	0

83 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 83	Consider the Dentists Dentists are shunned more than anybody! (They have the highest suicide rate.) We associate them only with pain, no doubt. The tray full of sharp instruments and hanging drills takes away the party atmosphere. Honestly, what are you ...	0

84 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 84	Thanksgiving Holiday Americans have a Thanksgiving holiday the fourth Thursday of November. They prepare a large turkey dinner with pumpkin pie and cranberries. Why do we have Thanksgiving? The Pilgrims sailed to America in 1620 in a small ship, the Mayf...	0

85 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 85	Cell Phone Accident Link Some state lawmakers want to know whether the increasing use of cell phones is leading to more accidents. “Too many drivers lose track of what they’re doing when they’re talking on the telephone,” said State Representative Jeanine Perry...	0

86 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 86	Montana Wildfire U. S. Highway 2, near Glacier National Park, was reopened Sunday, just a half-mile from a wind-whipped wildfire. Authorities escorted traffic on the highway along the southern edge of the park in northwest Montana. Fire managers warned that it...	0

87 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 87	Delta Chops Fares Delta Air Lines has more than 80 percent of the flights that leave the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. It also has the dubious distinction of having the nation’s highest fares. Now, to be more competitive, Delta is going ...	0

88 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 88	Emoticons The smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages to express sentiments that otherwise would be difficult to detect. It started with the smiley face 25 years ago, and...	0

89 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 89	FDA Teaches Kids Nutrition Nutrition experts and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advocate teaching children to read food labels themselves to find healthy food, because “parents are not doing a bang-up job” doing it. The FDA joined up with the Cartoon ...	0

90 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 90	Starbucks Fix Before Howard Shultz agreed to come back to become CEO of Starbucks, the company he built from scratch, he had to get his kids’ blessing. After all, if Dad was going back to the grind he would be working 15 hour days. In the end, Dad prevailed. ...	0

91 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 91	Figurative Language The following paragraph is an opening to a short story. There aren’t many words that an advanced student won’t recognize, but there is considerable figurative language. As I crawled along the highway, I was having second thoughts abou...	0

92 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 92	In the last lesson you saw how familiar words can have meanings that you weren’t aware of. So, here we go again! Email Stress: The New Office Worker’s Plague Over a third of workers say they are inundated with a never-ending stream of ...	0

93 - Read and Spell Lesson	Lesson R&S 93	This text was adapted from several internet websites: Organizing a party The host is expected to lay on food and drink, which can be expensive and time-consuming. Consider asking others to make a contribution and bring something. A lot of food means a lot ...	0