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Chinese student Minzhe Zou answers a question in statistics class at Orono High School in Orono, Maine. (Associated Press)
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With Mount Katahdin rising in the background, a school bus makes its rounds in Millinocket, Maine, in 2011. The town's public high school is touting its natural resources in an effort to offset a dwindling population by recruiting foreign students. (Associated Press)
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NFL Vice President and former NFL player Troy Vincent, Sr. speaks to students about the dangers of steroid use as Congressman Elijah Cummings, D-Md center,, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell applaud Monday, April 4, 2011 at Woodlawn High School in Woodlawn, Md.(AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican, is chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (Associated Press)
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Former University of Houston basketball coach Guy V. Lewis listens as former player Clyde Drexler speaks during a reception held in his honor, Friday, April 1, 2011, at the school in Houston. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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"The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research" provides findings from studies on terrorism and counterterrorism.
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Visitors at the American Museum of Science & Energy in Oak Ridge, Tenn., read text about the communities that were displaced to make way for the Manhattan Project. (Associated Press/American Museum of Science & Energy)
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Virginia Commonwealth University Rams head coach Shaka Smart (left) is greeted by VCU President Michael Rao (right) as he makes his way to the team bus for the VCU men's basketball team's departure from the Richmond campus on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, en route to the school's first appearance in the NCAA Final Four. VCU plays Butler University on Saturday evening in Houston. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Virginia Commonwealth University graduate students Marisa Cosco (left) and Carrie Newcomb (right) join in a cheer as the crowd waits for the VCU men's basketball team to depart from the campus in Richmond on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, en route to Houston for the NCAA Final Four tournament. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Virginia Commonwealth University graduate James Carter holds 6-year-old son Thomas while wife Enjoli cheers the departure of the VCU basketball team Wednesday for Houston and a Final Four appearance against Butler University. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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**FILE** House Speaker John A. Boehner, who attended Catholic schools, has made resurrecting the federally funded D.C. school-voucher program a legislative priority. (Associated Press)
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Eric Brown, left, a researcher for IBM, hosts a version of the television game show Jeopardy! between IBM's Watson computer and students from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh during a symposium on Watson, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Watson is the question-answering IBM computer that made headlines by competing against humans on the actual television game show. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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VCU graduate students Marisa Cosco (left) and Carrie Newcomb (right) join in a cheer as a crowd waits for the men's basketball team's departure from the Richmond campus Wednesday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Speaking at a Semana de la Latina event Tuesday, University of Maryland senior Jacob Crider asks for support of a bill that would grant in-state tuition to many Maryland illegal immigrants. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A group of University of Maryland students gather Tuesday to discuss supporting a bill that would allow many illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition in Maryland. The university's student government and president already endorse the bill, which supporters say would help the state economy by creating a better-prepared work force. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray shakes hands Monday night with audience members after delivering his maiden State of the District address to a full house at Eastern High School in Northeast Washington.
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President Barack Obama points to his earpiece, as he explains to the audience, that he is receiving translations during his town hall with students, parents and teachers at Bell Multicultural High School, in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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A student is wheeled to a waiting Lifeline helicopter Friday, March 25, 2011, at West Middle School in Martinsville, Ind. A person was shot Friday at the middle school in south-central Indiana and a suspect is in custody, state police said. (AP Photo/Mooresville-Decatur Times, Keith Rhoades)
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Georgetown's Sugar Rodgers shoots as Maryland's Alicia DeVaugh (right) and Alyssa Thomas defend in an NCAA women's college basketball tournament game Tuesday in College Park, Md. Georgetown won and next faces top seed Connecticut. (Associated Press)
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Georgetown's Sugar Rodgers steals the ball from Maryland's Alyssa Thomas during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
