When his parents asked him what was in his backpack, he ran out the door, the mother, Amy Loughner, said.

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Forget shelling out for a fancy backpack this fall.

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They also throw a pre-Derby party around the race to help out a charity called Blessings in a Backpack, a program that feeds elementary school children on the weekend across 32 states and three countries.

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That's thanks in no small part to a carabiner that wouldn't have looked altogether out of place strapped to your trusty hiking backpack.

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He apparently told his father no, saying that if they had wanted to help Tsarnaev, he and Kadyrbayev would have thrown out the bombing suspect's laptop and buried his backpack in the ground.

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These turned out to be thin-film photovoltaic cells, of the sort that could be sewn into a backpack and used to power a laptop.

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