D. in aerospace engineering and wrote a thesis on insectlike drones, some troops insist that they get the same robot back not a replacement unit.

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His family owned a nine-store furniture chain in Baltimore, and he wrote a Harvard Business School thesis on the industry.

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The son of a mechanic, he studied philosophy and wrote his thesis on Pope Gregory I at Bologna University, according to his campaign website.

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He wrote his senior thesis on the psychology of the workplace and contemplated a career as a clinical psychologist.

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