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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, Oct. 16, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, Princeton High School Senior Sarah Murray, left, laughs as she undergoes an ultrasound from Perry Memorial Hospital ultrasound tech Nichole Ebener, center, in Princeton, Ill. Murray and fellow PHS senior Ellise Piper, right, were learning about ultrasounds as part of the PHS career internship program, where students spend part of their school days on site at various area businesses and government organizations. (Chris Yucos/NewsTribune via AP)
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In this Oct. 12, 2016 photo,Tom Moore, left, talks with 90-year-old Don McCabe about how Moore found McCabe's 1946 love letter to his high school sweetheart, Juanita Gibbs, in the rafters of Moore's home in Quincy, Ill. Moore and his wife, Laura, found the letter while adding insulation to their attic on Tuesday. "She was my high school sweetheart, my first love ... and we wound up getting married," McCabe said. "We had three children. She passed away in 1978." (Phil Carlson/The Quincy Herald-Whig via AP)
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The Cherry Creek School District in Colorado is defending a survey given to staff during diversity training sessions that asks employees to identify their white privilege. (Denver 7 News)
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In this Oct. 6, 2016 photo, from left, Sean Leahy, Kaitlin Reap, Addison Casavechia, Connor Burns, blue shirt, Quinn Roberts and Max Oldham, students at Hawthorne Elementary School near Wrigley Field in Chicago, hold a Cubs W sign outside the school. It was one of 500 W's that the Cubs gave the school for the kids, who took them home last week. Every postseason run by the Cubs is accompanied by a fear of failure for its diehard fans. But young supporters of the Cubs know little of billy goat curses and botched plays, and they are confident of a World Series win. (AP Photo by Don Babwin)
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People gather in front of Widener Library on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (Associated Press)
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Joe DiPietro, a University of Pittsburgh student. installs the Aquaponics Project, a partnership of Pitt's Innovation Institute and the Door Campaign on Oct. 11, 2016 in Pittsburgh. Starting in November and over the next year, Pitt students will work on the aquaponics lab to make it the most efficient environment they can. (Lake Fong/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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In this April 8, 2016, photo provided by Breakthrough, Columbia University graduate student Savannah Badalich leads a Breakthrough Campus Catalyst Training with student activists at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. When news broke that Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had bragged of groping women, and then trivialized it as “locker room talk,” it felt to some students like a repudiation of their efforts. (Jacob Greenfield/Breakthrough via AP)
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Advocates post education invoices on the doors to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office at the state Capitol on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, in Albany, N.Y. More than a week after setting out on foot from New York City, a group of students, parents and education advocates arrived in Albany in pursuit of more school funding. Organizers say the walk was meant to draw attention to the billions of dollars the state owes students in the wake of the 2006 Campaign for Fiscal Equity case that found New York was underfunding schools. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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This photo provided the Fairfax County, Va. Police Department News shows Fabiana Ciammaichella. Ciammaichella, 30, and student at a Fairfax County high school have been arrested after police say teamed up to steal a case of beer. (Fairfax County, Va. Police Department News via AP)
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Mourners share a tearful embrace Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, during a vigil attended by about 1,000 at Harwood Union High School in Duxbury, Vt., held for the teenaged victims killed in Saturday night's crash on Interstate 89 in Williston. Four of the five teens killed by the wrong-way driver were students at Harwood. The fifth student killed was from Fayston and attended a private school in New Hampshire. (Stefan Hard/Times Argus via AP)
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Wendy Peterson, left, and Kristi McKnight, right, staff at Harwood Union High School, update a marquee in front of the school Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Duxbury, Vt., with an invitation to the public to attend a vigil for four students from the school, and a fifth member of the community, killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 89 Sunday. The five teenagers were killed when a pickup truck speeding in the wrong direction on the highway slammed into their car, sending it up in flames. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 photo, University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel speaks during the annual Leadership Breakfast at the Michigan Union at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Mich.The University of Michigan unveiled an $85 million, five-year plan on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, to promote diversity and inclusion Thursday, just days after racist flyers posted at the mostly white Ann Arbor campus caused unease among some black students ( Melanie Maxwell/The Ann Arbor News via AP)
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In a 2008 photo provided by Bard College, Jacob Nuesner, Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Theory, Professor of Religion and Theology and Bard Center Fellow stands in his study at home. Neusner, a renowned scholar of Judaism, and author of more than 900 books died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016, at his home in New York State, according to Bard College. He was 84. (Emily Darrow/Bard College via AP)
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In this Oct. 6, 2016 photo, front row, from left, three Girl Scouts: Lila Steinhardt, Sophia Singh, Pippa Lee, and back row, from left: statue project organizer Pam Elam; Skye Lucas and Jackie Hahn from Manhattan`s Dwight School; and Ariel Deutsch from Manhattan`s LaGuardia High School gather in Central Park to raise money for a Central Park monument to women in New York. In Central Park, none of the sculptures or busts honoring illustrious people is a woman. Now, activists are raising money to erect the park’s first monument to women who changed history: suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. (AP Photo/ Verena Dobnik)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY OCT. 9 AND THEREAFTER - In a Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 photo, Adam Bolander, left, shakes the hand of Ky'Re Houskins after Houskins stated all the ways he helped out over the weekend during a Boys to Men etiquette class at Irving Elementary School, in Waterloo, Iowa. Kevin Grieme, one of the program's volunteer leaders, said they are teaching the boys "basic manners and how to be a good person" when they meet each Monday at the beginning of the school day over 10 weeks. (Matthew Putney/The Waterloo Courier via AP) /The Courier via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 9 - In this Monday, Sept. 26, 2016 photo, from left, Matthew Logue, 12 of Ponca, Gabe Reinert, 13, of Martinsburg, and Michaela Nitz, of Dixon County, listen as hunting education instructor Alex Thomas leads a hands-on demonstration during a hunting education class in Martinsburg, Neb. (Justin Wan/Sioux City Journal via AP)
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Texas A&M quarterback Trevor Knight (8) celebrates after rushing for a touchdown against the Tennessee during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016, in College Station, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Maryland quarterback Tyrrell Pigrome (3) dives in for a touchdown against Penn State during the first half of an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)
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Penn State's Saquon Barkley (26) is tackled by Maryland's Shane Cockerille (2) during the first half of an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)
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In a photo from Oct. 5, 2016, Kyle Wright, a senior at Kennedy High School in Taylor, Mich., stands outside a greenhouse at the school that will get a makeover with a $30,000 state grant. The greenhouse has been in disrepair for years, and Wright hopes to revive it to grow vegetables for needy families. (AP Photo/Ed White)
