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In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2017 photo, Laura Berick, left, has lunch with Justine Myers at Berick's home in Judson Manor, in Cleveland. In a research project, graduate-level students live among residents of the Judson Manor retirement home. The study looks at the impact of isolation and loneliness, aging and stereotypes of retirees by students and vice versa. Myers is an artist-in-residence at Judson Park. She is an Oberlin College graduate student studying music. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2017 photo, Laura Berick, left, a retired art dealer, has lunch with Justine Myers at Berick's home in Judson Manor, in Cleveland. In a research project, graduate-level students live among residents of the Judson Manor retirement home. The study looks at the impact of isolation and loneliness, aging and stereotypes of retirees by students and vice versa. Myers is an artist-in-residence at Judson Park. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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In this Feb. 15, 2017, photo, student Shukuru Amanya, 18, stands outside Phoenix Academy in Lancaster, Pa. The Lancaster community runs an "international school" on its main high school campus to help the waves of new arrivals sponsored by local resettlement agencies learn English and adjust to American schools. But the practice of sending the ones who are over 16 and have no school records to Phoenix, an alternative school across town, has rattled critics who see it as a diploma mill. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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In this Feb. 15, 2017, photo, Eric Hoover teaches his class of immigrant and refugee students at McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pa. The Lancaster community runs an "international school" on its main high school campus to help the waves of new arrivals sponsored by local resettlement agencies learn English and adjust to American schools. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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In this Feb. 15, 2017, photo, School District of Lancaster Superintendent Damaris Rau discusses the education of immigrant and refugee students in an interview at the district office in Lancaster, Pa. The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the school district over the placement of older refugee students in an alternative school rather than the mainstream high school. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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In this Feb. 15, 2017, photo, Shukuru Amanya works with paper letters in an English language class at Phoenix Academy in Lancaster, Pa. Amanya, 18, was born in a refugee camp in Tanzania to parents who had fled Congo. She said she attended school there, in French, through 11th grade and came to the U.S. last fall with her husband and daughter. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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In this Feb. 15, 2017, photo, Shukuru Amanya works with paper letters in an English language class at Phoenix Academy in Lancaster, Pa. Amanya, 18, was born in a refugee camp in Tanzania to parents who had fled Congo. She said she attended school there, in French, through 11th grade. Amanya came to the U.S. last fall with her husband and 2-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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In this Feb. 15, 2017, photo, Patient Inganya, right, and Enrique Veliz, left, do classwork at Phoenix Academy in Lancaster, Pa. The Lancaster community runs an "international school" on its main high school campus to help the waves of new arrivals sponsored by local resettlement agencies learn English and adjust to American schools. But the practice of sending the ones who are over 16 and have no school records to Phoenix, an alternative school across town, has rattled critics who see it as a diploma mill. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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Activists and protesters with the National Center for Transgender Equality rally in front of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Washington, after the Department of Education and the Justice Department announced plans to overturn the school guidance on protecting transgender students. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**
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Notre Dame's Lindsay Allen, right, goes up for a layup over Boston College's Taylor Ortlepp during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Robert Franklin)
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Notre Dame's Arike Ogunbowale (24) drives between Boston College's Georgia Pineau (2) and Emma Guy (11) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Robert Franklin)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, a police officer directs students down the street following a school lockdown at Mueller Park Junior High after a student fired a gun into the ceiling, in Bountiful, Utah. A Utah teenager who pleaded guilty to firing the shotgun before being disarmed by his parents is set to be sentenced Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE-The Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, file photo of missing teacher Tara Grinstead is prominently displayed on a billboard in Ocilla, Ga. Grinstead's disappearance on Oct. 22, 2005, was marked by a ceremony in Ocilla. Authorities in rural south Georgia say they plan to update the public, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, on their 11-year search for a missing teacher. A former beauty queen who taught at Irwin County High School, Grinstead was 30 years old when she vanished in October 2005 from her home. (AP Photo/Elliott Minor, File)
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This Feb 22, 2017 photo released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation shows Ryan Alexander Duke, in Georgia. Duke was arrested by authorities on murder charges in the disappearance of a high school teacher in rural south Georgia more than 11 years ago. (Georgia Bureau of Investigation via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2016 file photo, singer Rihanna poses for photographers as she arrives to Christian Dior's Spring-Summer 2017 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented in Paris. Harvard University will present the singer with the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, during a ceremony on campus in Cambridge, Mass., (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
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Attorney Sam Zaganjori testifies during day two of an evidentiary hearing on whether Owen Labrie will be granted a retrial at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vt., was acquitted in 2015 of raping a 15-year-old classmate when he was 18 in a game of sexual conquest at St. Paul's School in Concord. He was convicted of misdemeanor sexual assault and child endangerment, as well as a felony charge of using a computer to lure the girl for sex. (Elizabeth Frantz/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Purdue's P.J. Thompson (11) drives to the basket against Penn State during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in State College, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Purdue won 74-70 in overtime. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)
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Maryland's Melo Trimble, left, reaches for a steal as American's Saeed Nelson dribbles during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Nov. 11, 2016 in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton) **FILE**
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Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, stands near the edge of the House floor Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, during debate over education funding at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. The House approved its education funding proposal Wednesday, just weeks after the Republican-led Senate passed its own plan. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
