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Snow shoots out of a remotely-controlled snowblower in the parking lot of Wausau West High School in Wausau, Wis. on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. The device is being developed by a team of 13 students at the high school through a grant from MIT and the Lemmelson Foundation. The team hopes to turn it into an autonomous device. (AP Photo/The Wausau Daily Herald, Keith Uhlig)
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Wausau West High School senior Ethan Klein maneuvers the school's robot snowblower in Wausau, Wis. on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. He and his classmates are developing it through a grant from MIT and the Lemmelson Foundation. Klein and the rest of the team of 13 students working on the project hope to make it work autonomously. (AP Photo/The Wausau Daily Herald, Keith Uhlig)
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Students make their way through the falling snow on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for Wednesday and into Thursday covering most of North Carolina. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Katharine Newton, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, calls her parents while walking more than two miles from campus to her parents' home during a snow storm in Chapel Hill, NC, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. Roads were blocked and Newton was unable to drive. (AP Photo/Ted Richardson)
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Students and passersby watch a demonstration of a TeleBot, right, which combines telepresence and robotics, during a demonstration at Florida International University, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 in Miami. A group of students at FIU's Discovery Lab is testing their version of a RoboCop that will allow disabled police and military personnel to serve as patrol officers. The TeleBot project began in 2012 when Jeremy Robins, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves, donated $20,000 to the Discovery Lab to develop the idea. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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The construction site where a wooly mammoth tusk was discovered is shown on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. The construction site is adjacent to the Bright Horizons Childcare and Early Learning facility in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood in the downtown core of the city. The Burke Museum confirmed that the ancient find is a mammoth tusk. (Associated Press/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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FILE - Regine Chassagne, center left, and Win Butler, center right, are joined by fellow band members of Arcade Fire to accept the award for album of the year at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on in this Feb. 13, 2011 file photo taken in Los Angeles. Arcade Fire is the top nominee for the 2014 mtvU Woodie Awards. The Montreal-based band has three nominations for the March 13, 2014 awards show celebrating music embraced by college students (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
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The construction site where a wooly mammoth tusk was discovered is shown on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. The construction site is adjacent to the Bright Horizons Childcare and Early Learning facility in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood in the downtown core of the city. The Burke Museum confirmed that the ancient find is a mammoth tusk. (Associated Press/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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Snow covers a car on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/The Daily Mississippian, Thomas Graning)
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Oklahoma State's Le'Bryan Nash (2) scores against Texas during the second half on an NCAA college basketball game, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Texas won 87-68. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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State Legislature interns Mahtub Zare Mochanloo, far right, and Sophanite Gedion, second row center, listen to testimony during a hearing on a bill which would allow Colorado public school teachers to carry concealed firearms during class, at the Capitol, in Denver, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. The Republican proposal has been made before without success, but the suggestion has additional relevance after last year's Arapahoe High School shootings, in which a student targeted a teacher. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Michael Eaton, Chief of Safety and Security for Denver Public Schools, gives testimony in opposition to a bill which would allow Colorado public school teachers to carry concealed firearms during class, during a hearing at the Capitol, in Denver, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. The Republican proposal has been made before without success, but the suggestion has additional relevance after last year's Arapahoe High School shootings, in which a student targeted a teacher. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
