Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, May 1, 1993 TAG: 9305010235
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Kansas also had the winning state team.
Carleton J. Bosley, a student at Washburn Middle School in Topeka, Kan., captured the top spot by correctly responding to the question: "What is the least number of people you could have in a group and still be sure that at least three of them have birthdays in the same month." The correct answer is 25.
Bosley topped 223 students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and overseas schools run by the departments of State and Defense.
He won an $8,000 scholarship, a personal computer, a week at U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., and is scheduled to meet President Clinton today at the White House.
Davesh Maulik of Mission Valley Middle School in Prairie Village, Kan., took second place, while third place went to Richard Chiburis, a seventh-grade student at Memorial Middle School in Houston. The runners-up received silver and bronze medals and $6,000 and $4,000 scholarships, respectively.
\ Singer and actress Cher said Friday she felt her Armenian heritage for the first time during an emotional two-day private aid mission to the homeland of her late father.
"It's been an unbelievable time for me," the half-Armenian entertainer said after meeting the president of the former Soviet republic, which has been in an undeclared war with neighboring Azerbaijan since 1988.
Cher, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, arrived Wednesday with $2.75 million worth of privately donated humanitarian aid, including toys, medical supplies and computers.
by CNB