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**FILE** Students hold their position during a yoga class at Capri Elementary School in Encinitas, Calif., on Dec. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

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University of Iowa student Angie Platt, 20, is seen on campus in Iowa City, Iowa, on July 1, 2013. College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring — unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday. Platt said the increase in interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans will add to her debt load, which is expected to top $60,000 by the time she graduates. (Associated Press)

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President Obama listens to the audience's response to a question he asked during a Rose Garden event with college students on Friday, May 31, 2013, at the White House, during which the president called on Congress to keep federally subsidized student loans rates from doubling on July 1. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Team members from the "Jesse III", a high-school constructed submarine, bring their craft to the loading dock to be submerged into the water to compete in the 2013 International Submarine Races at the Naval Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in Bethesda, MD., Thursday, June 27, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Team members from the "Leviathan", a high-school constructed submarine, bring their craft to the loading dock to be lifted out of the water after competing in the 2013 International Submarine Races at the Naval Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in Bethesda, MD., Thursday, June 27, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Team members from the "Jesse III", a high-school constructed submarine, bring their craft to the loading dock to be submerged into the water to compete in the 2013 International Submarine Races at the Naval Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in Bethesda, MD., Thursday, June 27, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Team members from the "Leviathan", a high-school constructed submarine, bring their craft to the loading dock to be lifted out of the water after competing in the 2013 International Submarine Races at the Naval Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in Bethesda, MD., Thursday, June 27, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Team members from the "Jesse III", a high-school constructed submarine, swim with their craft to the starting line to compete in the 2013 International Submarine Races at the Naval Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in Bethesda, MD., Thursday, June 27, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** President Obama wipes away sweat during a speech at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Mike Wazowski (above), voiced by Billy Crystal, is a striver after he hits the college campus in "Monsters University." There he meets Sully (left, center). (Disney-Pixar via Associated Press)

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President Obama helps students as they work on a school project about the G-8 summit during a visit to the Enniskillen Integrated Primary School in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. (Associated Press)

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At a U.N.-sponsored school, Guor Mading meets with pupils who are curious about his improbable story of escaping the horrors of war and becoming an Olympic runner. (Photograph provided by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees)