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Parents and students try to find each other after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at Perry Hall High School Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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A Baltimore County police officer speaks to a parent as students are evacuated from Perry Hall High School after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Parents wait to reunite with their children after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at Perry Hall High School, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Parents and students try to reunite after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at Perry Hall High School, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Students evacuate Perry Hall High School after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Tracie Bradford, of Perry Hall, Md., consoles her daughter Leah, a student at Perry Hall High School who says she was in the school's cafeteria when a student was shot there and critically wounded on the first day of classes, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Parents and students try to reunite after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at Perry Hall High School, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Retired Air Force Col. Jerry LeMieux, founder of the Unmanned Vehicle University, is waiting for FAA certification so graduates will be fully licensed by the federal government to operate drones. The university teaches a variety of subjects online, including vehicle design and system fundamentals. (Martin S. Fuentes/Special to The Washington Times)

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Seventh-graders settle in for class at Greenbelt Middle School, in Greenbelt, Prince George’s County. The county school system allows the use of iPads and cellphones for instructional purposes as do other school systems in the D.C. area. Below, an iPhone. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Noah Yosif, 17, gets help moving to his dorm room from his parents, Benjamin Yosif and Reshma Ahmed, a day before the official move-in day for students at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. At top area colleges, applications for admission are actually up, despite economic stagnation at the national level. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Meghan and Denis O’Meara grab stuff off the roof of their car as they move their daughter into her dorm at American University in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Students move in to Anderson and Centennial halls at American on Thursday. American is one of several schools that has more incoming freshman than available dorm space. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Students move in to Anderson and Centennial halls at American University in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. According to some reports, this is one of several schools in the nation that has more incoming freshman than available dorm space. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)