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The four MIT students tour Kibera's back alleys, past the one-room tin shacks, and jumped over slimy streams of sewage in their search for why Kenyans are reluctant to use the health clinic. Many residents, the students heard, didn't even know about the medical facility.
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Middle school teacher Gary Weddle, 50, holds his cut beard while shaving the remaining stubble on Sunday evening after learning of the death of Osama bin Laden. On 9/11, he vowed to not shave until the al Qaeda leader was caught or killed. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, here in 2008, says a loss of bipartisan cooperation is hampering current education reform efforts.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "It's been healing, for myself as well as others," said Brook Peters, 14, with his mother, Michelle Peters, about the Sept. 11 documentary he put together. "I definitely had a very bad experience that day." He was in kindergarten in New York City at the time.
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Associated Press Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels chats with student Cree DeDeaux, 14, during a tour of the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School in Indianapolis on April 15. Indiana on Wednesday passed the largest school-voucher bill in the nation's history. Mr. Daniels is expected to sign the measure into law.
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Quarterback Ricky Dobbs (4) finished his Navy career as the school's all-time leader in touchdowns (49) and fifth in rushing yardage (2,665). (The Washington Times)
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Students at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology light candles April 10 to mourn fellow students who committed suicide at their campus in Daejeon, South Korea. Four have killed themselves since the beginning of the year. (Associated Press)
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"Three Cups of Tea" co-author Greg Mortenson in 2009 shows the locations of future village schools to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the opening of Pushghar Village Girls School in Afghanistan. (Defense Department via Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Tyler Clementi hugs a student during his 2010 graduation from Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, N.J. (AP Photo)
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Evette Davis hugs daughter Heaven, 5, and son Julian, 9, after a shooting at Ross Elementary School in Houston on Tuesday, April 19, 2011. A kindergartner who brought a loaded gun to the school Tuesday was among three students injured by fragments when it fired after falling from his pocket as he sat down for lunch, officials said. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, James Nielsen)
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Washington Redskins linebacker London Fletcher organized a two-day minicamp during the NFL lockout for Redskins players at a high school field in Virginia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, is chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo)
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Patrick Woods, a freshman at Pine Forest High School in Fayetteville, N.C., picks up an American flag from the remains of structures on the softball field at the school on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Michael Conti)
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Cliff Tucker is a familiar face to Maryland baskeball fans, but with his eligibility in that sport done, he is trying to catch on with the Terps' football team as a wide receiver, a position he last played in high school. (Rod Lamkey/The Washington Times)
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Fans in Caps uniforms walk in front of the Verizon Center as the pep band from Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Va., plays before a playoff game between the Washington Capitals and the New York Rangers in Washington on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Freedom High School drum major Caleb Wesley from Woodbridge, Va., pumps up his pep band as they perform before a Capitals playoff game against the New York Rangers in Washington on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Kindergarten teacher Sue larue, tries out an iPad Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in Auburn, Maine. Five kindergarten teachers were given iPads to try out in preparation for next year when nearly 300 kindergarteners will be given their own iPad2s. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
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President Obama greets students from Altona Middle School in Longmont, Colo., on the South Portico of the White House on Monday. Shalini Schane (second from left) had written to the president. (Associated Press)
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President Obama walks back toward the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday after meeting students from Altona Middle School in Longmont, Colo. The president received a letter from a school parent who was worried that her son's trip would be canceled by a government shutdown, which was averted. (Associated Press)
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This undated photo courtesy of Sarah Lawrence College shows students on the campus of Sarah Lawrence in Bronxville, N.Y. Tens of thousands of high school students sweated over their college applications, huddled at mailboxes for acceptances and will face the final push toward the rest of their lives over the next few weeks. (Associated Press/Sarah Lawrence College)
