And yet somehow despite all the obvious pitfalls with true love between an impoverished teenaged human girl and a century old and super rich vampire man, their marriage as soon as she graduates from high school, her life-ending (and vampire beginning) pregnancy, people around the world have paid money in record numbers to see Breaking Dawn Part 2.
Lincoln sounded like a boring high school history class come to life, yet it became a critical and box-office triumph.
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Her name is Katharine Gin and she founded Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC) to help undocumented students navigate life after high school and college.
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Creating that kind of environment -- one that supports teachers' professional growth and better prepares students for life after high school -- is worth the investment.
The set hints at life beyond high school, including a Columbia University dormitory room that appears to be outfitted for female freshman, with sparkly sneakers and film-noir posters.
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Computer viruses, once the mischievous work of get-a-life geeks and high school kids looking for a little recognition, suddenly are a profit engine for the criminal underground.
The filmmaker says that's something he's seen from Tebow his whole life, even in high school.
My time with TV continued through high school, college, and into married life.
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Today, Canales' nonprofit, Gridiron Heroes, provides emotional and financial support to high school football players who've sustained life-changing spinal cord injuries.
For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinary life, much as high school and college do for rich white ones.
Four studies in recent years identified modest declines, but a new one that looks separately at Americans lacking a high school diploma found disturbingly sharp drops in life expectancy for whites in this group.
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"It's kind of an organic relationship that's evolved not just from being high school buddies but from having common passions for life, " Molony said.
If one of this year's high school graduates decides he wants nothing more from life than to be a billionaire, should he plunk down tens of thousands of dollars and work for years to earn a college diploma?
The steepest declines were for white women without a high school diploma, who lost five years of life between 1990 and 2008, said S. Jay Olshansky, a public health professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the lead investigator on the study, published last month in Health Affairs.
Garrido's life began to spiral downward in high school, his father, Manuel Garrido, told CNN.
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The latest estimate shows life expectancy for white women without a high school diploma was 73.5 years, compared with 83.9 years for white women with a college degree or more.
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The high school student from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was taken off life support Sunday.
Are we the land of opportunity or are recent high school and college graduates condemned to the underclass for their working life?
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And I'm going to tell them that in my own life, 35 years after graduating from my high school class, I moved back to my hometown, which I never thought I would do, and I married that kid.
Meanwhile, the life expectancy of African-American women without high-school diplomas has surpassed that of similar white women.
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She described starting at the city's Edgbaston High School for Girls as "the most important day" of her life.
My old friend, Ted, who grew up with me through grade school and high school, lost his mind in that war and later took his life.
Some other studies that focused on national data have highlighted steep declines in life expectancy for white women who never earned a high-school diploma.
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If the students at Wellesley didn't know this before their last moments of high school, I am glad McCullough was there to help them out before life taught them that lesson in less forgiving ways.
Other things constant, (1) kids with a better quality high school education are more likely to be prepared for the rigors of college life, and (2) kids that come from a more stable household and neighborhood environment as a youth are more likely equipped in terms of maturation to succeed academically in college.
White women without a high-school diploma, Olshansky also reported, lost a full five years of life expectancy from 1990 to 2008.
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The limited options for women who did work, and the postwar propaganda about the glories of homemaking, convinced the young women who were graduating from high school and college in the early 1960s that once you married, the good life was the stay-at-home life.
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