Tuli Bennett-Bose

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Tuli Bennett-Bose, 12, reads from the dictionary as she waits for her father to join her to practice her spelling at their D.C. home. "I learn by a mix of everything: visually, hearing it, saying it and feeling it," says the seventh-grader at Oyster-Adams Bilingual School, who is fluent in four languages. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)