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In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2017 photo, Kanani Oyakawa, a crew member, recounts their incident after the Kalani High School Paddling Team arrived safely at Moanalua Bay in Hawaii-Kai, Hawaii, after their double-hull canoe began taking on water. All students returned to shore safely and no injuries were reported. (Craig T. Kojima/The Star-Advertiser via AP)
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In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2017 photo, parents waiting onshore for the Kalani High School Paddling Team to arrive safely by rescue boat at Moanalua Bay in Hawaii-Kai, Hawaii, after team's double-hull canoe began taking on water. All students returned to shore safely and no injuries were reported. (Craig T. Kojima/The Star-Advertiser via AP)
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In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2017 photo, Barbara Hara, gives daughter Kaylyn a hug after the Kalani High School Paddling Team arrived safely at Moanalua Bay in Hawaii-Kai, Hawaii, after their double-hull canoe began taking on water. All students returned to shore safely and no injuries were reported. (Craig T. Kojima/The Star-Advertiser via AP)
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In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2017 photo, Kalani High School Paddling Team members arrive safely at Moanalua Bay in Hawaii-Kai, Hawaii, after their double-hull canoe began taking on water. All students returned to shore safely and no injuries were reported. (Craig T. Kojima/The Star-Advertiser via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2017 file photo, a painting by David Pulphus hangs in a hallway displaying paintings by high school students selected by their member of congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. A student's painting that divided members of Congress for its depiction of Ferguson, Mo., has been removed from its Capitol Hill display, this time more permanently. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2016 file photo, Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos speaks in Grand Rapids, Mich. DeVos, Trump’s choice for education secretary, has spent over two decades advocating for school choice programs, which give students and parents an alternative to traditional public school education. Her confirmation hearing was scheduled for Jan. 17. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump stands with Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos in Bedminster, N.J. DeVos has spent over two decades advocating for school choice programs, which give students and parents an alternative to traditional public school education. Her confirmation hearing was scheduled for Jan. 17. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump stands with Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos in Bedminster, N.J. DeVos has spent over two decades advocating for school choice programs, which give students and parents an alternative to traditional public school education. Her confirmation hearing was scheduled for Jan. 17. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Wasting More Money on Climate Science Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Rodney, left, and Rose Hunsicker, birth parents of Grace Packer, arrive for a memorial service in Glenside, Pa., Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. Friends described Grace, allegedly killed by her adoptive mother and the mother’s boyfriend, as a bubbly girl who looked out for lonely classmates at school. (Art Gentile/The Intelligencer via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump stands with Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos in Bedminster, N.J. Charter school advocate and wealthy Republican donor Betsy DeVos is widely expected to push for expanding school choice programs if confirmed as education secretary, causing outrage among teachers unions. But Democrats and rights activists also are raising concerns about how her conservative Christian beliefs and advocacy for family values might impact minority and LGBT students. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2012, file photo, U.S. Sen. John Glenn talks with astronauts on the International Space Station via satellite before a discussion titled "Learning from the Past to Innovate for the Future" in Columbus, Ohio. Adam Sackowitz, a graduate student at St. John's University, is fighting for a series of tangible honors for Glenn, including a statue, a portrait and a place for the late astronaut's birthplace in Cambridge, Ohio, on the National Historic Register. Glenn, who became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962, died Dec. 8, 2016, at age 95. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
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In this Dec. 27, 2016 photo, David Rivers, Ph.D., Loyola University biology department chair, holds a fly sample he raised for his research in Baltimore, Md. Rivers and his students are researching on how to help law enforcement to identify real blood stains from fly contaminants at crime scene. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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In this Dec. 27, 2016 photo, David Rivers, Ph.D., Loyola University biology department chair, looks over his flies he raises for research in Baltimore, Md. Rivers and his students are researching on how to help law enforcement to identify real blood stains from fly contaminants at crime scene. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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In this Dec. 27, 2016 photo, David Rivers, Ph.D., Loyola University biology department chair, poses in Baltimore, Md. Rivers and his students are researching on how to help law enforcement to identify real blood stains from fly contaminants at crime scene. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
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Thomas Jefferson High School computer science teacher Denise Hoag, right, works with sophomore Nick Miskin as her software engineering class modifies code on Thursday, Jan. 6., 2017 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Hoag are trying to get more girls interested in computer science, a traditionally male-dominated field. (Joe Shearer/The Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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Thomas Jefferson High School senior Toby Lechtenberger modifies code to create a graphic user interface in science teacher Denise Hoag's classroom on Thursday, Jan. 6., 2017 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Hoag are trying to get more girls interested in computer science, a traditionally male-dominated field. (Joe Shearer/The Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo provided by the University of Vermont, a patch honoring the late Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt is worn on a Vermont uniform. In addition to the University of Tennessee, women's basketball programs without direct connections to Summitt are finding ways to honor one of the game's greatest ambassadors in the season after her death. (Brian Jenkins/University of Vermont via AP)
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Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim, left, makes his point to an official in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Boston College in Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. Syracuse won 76-53. (AP Photo/Nick Lisi)
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Syracuse's Tyler Lydon yells as he dunks the ball in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Boston College in Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. Syracuse won 76-53. (AP Photo/Nick Lisi)
