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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)
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan has spoken positively of the D.C. schools chancellor's reforms. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he won't have any "quick reactions" to Israel's resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Maryland quarterback Danny O'Brien (5) throws a pass against Florida International during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 in College Park, Md.
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Texas State Board of Education member Lawrence Allen speaks during a meeting of the board to discuss Islam and Christianity in textbooks in Austin, Texas on Friday. The board of education adopted a resolution seeking to curtail references to Islam in textbooks. (Associated Press/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
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All vehicles entering the Seton Hall University campus on Saturday evening, Sept. 25, 2010, were stopped at the security gate after five students were shot, one of whom died, at an off-campus party early Saturday in East Orange, NJ. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)
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File - In this Jan. 22, 2008 file photo, Chinua Achebe, Nigerian-born novelist and poet poses at his home on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, file)
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Anthony Bruner and Mary Lou Bruner pray at the start of a meeting of the Texas State Board of Education to discuss Islam and Christianity in textbooks in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. The board of education adopted a resolution seeking to curtail references to Islam in textbooks. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Jay Janner)
