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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev poses for a photo after graduating from Cambridge (Mass.) Rindge and Latin High School in this undated photo. (AP Photo/Robin Young)

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Eleven-year-old students at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, in Pyongyang, North Korea practice taekwondo, April 18, 2013. (AP Photo)

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Baylor University students hold a candlelight vigil outside Waco Hall for the victims of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion on April 17, 2013. (Associated Press/Waco Tribune Herald)

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** FILE ** U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during his lecture to students at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, Pool)

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Mubarik Mohamoud, a 12th-grader who wants to be an electrical engineer, has been accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nadira, an 11th-grader, wants to be a chemist and has been accepted to Oberlin College. Both attend the Abaarso School of Science and Technology in Somaliland.

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Ballou High School drum major Genuine Kensey leads the school's marching band down Pennsylvania Avenue during Tuesday's Emancipation Day parade. (Photographs by Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Ballou High School drum major Genuine Kensey [cq] leads the marching band as they perform in front of the reviewing stand during the Washington, D.C. Emancipation Day parade, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 16, 2013. President Abraham Lincoln freed approximately 3,100 slaves in the District of Colombia on April 16, 1862, nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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APTOPIX Japan US Kerr_Lea.jpg

U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry speaks to students at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo on Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, Pool)

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It obvious that SEALs undergo a lot of water training. A program that was developed during the Vietnam war was that of drown proofing. A program that builds great confidence in the students of being able to survive in deep water. In this part of training, students have their hands tied behind their backs and descend to the bottom of the pool to recover this face mask with in their teeth. Photo: (C) 2011 Greg E. Mathieson Sr. / NSW Publications, LLC