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Gaithersburg High School band performs during the Labor Day parade. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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President Obama shakes hands with supporters after speaking at a campaign event at Scott High School Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 photo, Evan Jensen waits for customers at his mobile shower business, Better Showers, near Alexander, N.D. Jensen raised money for the facility, which caters largely to workers in North Dakota's oil patch, by trapping muskrats and hopes profits from the business will pay for his college tuition. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

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Brad Wolgast, a University of Delaware psychologist, says he is seeing more students who have been prescribed sleeping pills. Mr. Wolgast says sleeping pills usually harm sleep patterns more often than they help. (Associated Press)

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Taewon Kim, an electrical-engineering systems graduate student, sleeps in the library on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. Some schools are giving students what a growing body of research reveals could make a big difference in their academic endeavors; namely, earplugs, sleep shades and napping lessons, to help them get more sleep. (Associated Press)

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Michigan Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Academy members Noelle Hansford (left) and Andrea Case take a nap in the lobby of Bursley Hall on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., recently. About three-quarters of all college students have indicated having occasional sleep problems. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks to supporters at a campaign event at Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Maryland coach Randy Edsall watches from the sideline during the third quarter of a college football game against William & Mary, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, in College Park, Md. Maryland won 7-6. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

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Hans Pennink Copy photograph of Joe Vellano, University at Maryland College Football player visiting the university at age 5 years old on display at the family business in Latham, N.Y., Tuesday, July, 31, 2012. (Hans Pennink/Special to The Washington Times)

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A new $60 million high school football stadium in Allen, Texas, features seating for 18,000 fans, a 38-foot-wide video screen, corporate sponsors and an upper deck. The school’s previous venue had just 7,000 permanent seats. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Yale University president Richard Levin (right) leads a procession May 21, 2012, during Yale's commencement exercises in New Haven, Conn. (Associated Press)

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Preston Carter, 100, talks with police officers after police say his car went onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of parents and children outside a South Los Angeles elementary school, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. Nine children and two adults were injured in the wreck. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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A Los Angeles City firefighter assists one of eight people injured when a car sped onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of parents and children outside Main Street Elementary school, Wednesday Aug. 29, 2012 in Los Angeles. The crash occurred at 2:50 p.m., shortly after school had let out for the day, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Unified School District. Some of the people injured were children. (AP Photo/La Opinion, J. Emilio Flores)