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Fatou Sylla works on a car engine. Five other women started mechanic school with her and her cousin but "got married." (Associated Press)
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University of Manchester professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, right, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics pose for pictures outside Manchester University, Manchester, England, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Jon Super).
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 28, 2010, photo, President Obama shakes hands as he arrives at a rally on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo)
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In this photo taken Sept. 18, 2010, U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-Waynesville), second from left, coaches the Transylvania Jr. Pee Wee Ravens at halftime during the team's first game at Erwin High School in Asheville, N.C. Shuler's son, Navy, 9, also plays on the team. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** People participate in a candlelight vigil for Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi at Brower Commons on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J., on Oct. 3, 2010. Mr. Clementi jumped to his death off a bridge a day after two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the Internet. (Associated Press)
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Rutgers University students sign condolence cards Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, in New Brunswick, N.J., for the family of fellow student Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide apparently after his roommate allegedly broadcast video of his having sex with another man. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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In this Sept. 7, 2010, photo, University of Michigan alumnus and assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell speaks about the University of Michigan's student assembly president Chris Armstrong at a Michigan Student Assembly meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/The Michigan Daily, Marissa McClain)
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**FILE** Sex education teacher Shayna Knowles (center) talks Sept. 10, 2010, to students during class at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lake Worth, Fla. (Associated Press)
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A group participates in a "lie-in" near the Student Center at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. The rally was in support of safe places for gay students, in response to the death of a Rutgers University freshman who jumped off a bridge last week after a recording of him having a sexual encounter with a man was broadcast online. (AP Photo/Erin Vanderbeg)
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Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers smiles as he passes students after their practice at the team's training camp at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Tyler Clementi plays with the Ridgewood High School Orchestra at a benefit dinner in 2009. (AP Photo/The Record of Bergen County, Ryan Pifher)
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** FILE ** Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited Friendship Collegiate Academy in Northeast on Wednesday to tout the federally funded Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama makes an unscheduled stop and greets students at La Follette High School in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama makes an unscheduled stop to visit the La Follette High School Lancers football team in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama makes an unscheduled stop and visits the La Follette High School Lancers football team in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama speaks at a rally Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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University of Texas students gather as police respond to a shooting inside a campus library Tuesday. A gunman later identified by Austin police as a student opened fire, then fatally shot himself. (Associated Press)
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Students among a crowd of 20,000 celebrate as former Cuban President Fidel Castro delivers a speech in Havana during the 50th anniversary of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, the nation's neighborhood vigilance system. (Associated Press)
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Students Paige Raiczyk, front left, and Veronica Rivera, front right and other University of Texas students and faculty hold their phones for updated text messages inside Benedict Hall on campus in Austin early Tuesday morning Sept. 28, 2010 after a shooting on campus. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Tamir Kalifa)
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Students wave a Cuban flag during a speech delivered by Cuba's leader Fidel Castro as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, CDR, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
