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Spell-Check: Boy's Catch Saves a Spot in Spelling Bee

A 12-year-old California boy is responsible for righting an error made in judging the finals of the National Spelling Bee contest, which aired on prime-time television Thursday.

When Lucas Brown, a 7th-grader from Poway, Calif., realized the judges had mistakenly eliminated a contestant in round eight, he spoke up -- and Saryn Hooks returned to the competition. She eventually took third place.

The word was "hechsher" -- a formal approval of an item as kosher, delivered by a rabbi. When officials learned Hooks had indeed spelled the word correctly, she was returned to the stage.

Brown, whose sister, Julie, was a contestant in the bee, sat in the audience, following along in a digital dictionary on his lap-top computer. Robert Siegel talks with Lucas Brown.

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