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A student injured in a bomb explosion receives treatment at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A bomb exploded outside a school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)
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Orthodox Jewish children gather outside a school in Beni Brak, Israel, on Thursday. Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel. Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country. (Associated Press)
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Christy Westbrooks, whose daughter is a junior at Gardena High School, talks on the phone while standing outside the school in Gardena, Calif., on Tuesday. A gun in a 10th-grader's backpack accidentally discharged when he dropped the bag, wounding two students at the school, the campus principal said. (Associated Press)
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Police officers put yellow tape outside Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif., on Tuesday. Officers took a youth into custody and transported him to a police station while the school remained locked down. (Associated Press)
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A group of police officers stand Tuesday outside Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif., after reports of a number of students being wounded during a shooting. (Associated Press)
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This frame grab from video made available by ABC7.com, shows a person being taken into custody at Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif. According to officials, two students were wounded in a shooting at the high school. (AP Photo/ABC7.com)
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** FILE ** New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, left, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg look over a classroom in P.S. 262 on her first day as chancellor in New York, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this image taken from a YouTube video posted by Jared Lee Loughner and released by Pima Community College to the Associated Press , a campus books station is shown at Pima Community College, with the reflection of Loughner in Tucson, Ariz. The video shot by the suspected gunman in the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others showed the former community college student touring campus at night and at times rambling about free speech and the Constitution. (AP Photo/Pima Community College)
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Children are evacuated from school due to flooding in Geraardsbergen, 25 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
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Ludlow Taylor Elementary School, about eight blocks from Union Station in Washington, is where hit man Oscar Veal stalked Roy Cobb on May 14, 1998, but opted not to kill him in front of his girlfriend's children. He admitted in court testimony to murdering Cobb weeks later. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
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Second-grader Jonathan Cheng (center) looks over fruits and vegetables in the cafeteria at Fairmeadow Elementary School in Palo Alto, Calif. School lunch rules proposed by the U.S. Agriculture Department would limit calories allowed in school meals while increasing whole grains, fruits and vegetables. (Associated Press)
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In the town of Kasserine, site of the bloodiest confrontation, cars have been set on fire and police were reported to have killed a man carrying the coffin of a child. On Monday, Tunisia temporarily shut down all of its high schools and universities as it tried to stop deadly riots over joblessness and poor prospects for youths. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2007, file photo, a student puts apple slices on his tray during lunch at Central High School in St. Paul, Minn. Schoolchildren would have to pick up more whole grains, fruits and vegetables on the lunch line under proposed new federal standards for school lunches. The Agriculture Department proposal applies to lunches subsidized by the federal government and would be the first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in 15 years. They are expected to be announced Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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Play equipment at a new park bears the words "Todos Somos Juarez" ("We're all Juarez"), the name of a federal program attempting to increase education, jobs and safety in the border city. (Associated Press)
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Student Olivia Frierson presses contact pads from an AED machine onto a CPR mannequin during a CPR training class at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. The American Heart Association said Monday that all secondary school students should be required to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and receive an overview of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
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Dupree House, located in the Petworth neighborhood on Colorado Avenue NW, is operated by the nonprofit group Associates for Renewal in Education Inc. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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This photo obtained from the 2006 Mountain View High School yearbook shows Jared Loughner. A neighbor provided this photo to an Associated Press photographer outside a listed address for Mr. Loughner, where police are gathering, and said this person lived at the residence. (AP Photo)
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This handout photo provided by Purdue University shows David Nichols in a lab at the university in West Lafayette, Ind., Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Nichols studies the way psychedelic drugs act in the brains of rats. But he's haunted by how his work is being hijacked by humans selling street drugs. (AP Photo/Purdue University, Mark Simons)
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FILE - In this June 3, 2008 file photo, Liberty Valley Elementary School, Danville, Pa., kindergarten student Tianna Swisher attempts to drink from the water fountain at Montour Preserve, near Washingtonville, Pa., during the school's outdoor field trip. Fluoride in drinking water, credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay, may now be too much of a good thing. It's causing spots on some kids' teeth. A reported increase in the spotting problem is one reason the federal government will announce Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, it plans to lower the recommended limit for fluoride in water supplies, the first such change in nearly 50 years. (AP Photo/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, Bill Hughes, File)
