Education

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The team, including second-year graduate student Elizabeth Weiner keeps tabs on pilot Colin Gore. "They see a problem and they go and solve it," team adviser V.T. Nagaraj says. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Second year grad student Elizabeth Weiner, right, watches as UMD student and volunteer pilot Colin Gore, center, performs a test flight as students with the University of Maryland attempt to win the $250,000 AHS Sikorsky Prize using their human-powered helicopter at the Prince George's County Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md., Sunday, April 28, 2013. The helicopter has already set records for flight time and altitude. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Students study at Paul VI Catholic High School, which was recently threatened in an online forum with a Boston Massacre-style terror attack. (Image: PaulVI.net)

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Valerie Parlave of the FBI's Washington field office — flanked by Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. attorney for Maryland (left) and Ronald Machen Jr., U.S. attorney for the District — speaks about the return to the U.S. of Mr. Toth, a former teacher at the Beauvoir school who fled the U.S. in 2008,