The students are participating in an annual culture and language learning trip to China through the University of Maryland's Confucius Institute.

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She started the campaign in 2009, after learning during a carpool trip that unsecured guns were in the home of a family where her daughter had played.

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Before arriving each morning, he works out with a personal trainer or studies Mandarin, which he is learning in preparation for the trip to China.

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"I feel uneasy about that decision, but I also know the baseball trip can be a great learning experience, " she said.

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But, as I'm learning on this three-day pack trip into northwest Yellowstone National Park, the opposite is true: I have no idea how to ride.

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Craig Schapiro, a 41-year-old documentary filmmaker, knew about the film but made a trip to see it Friday after learning of the death.

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Yet on this trip, I can't get enough of museums and learning about the history of all these fascinating places we're visiting.

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Colorado native Joe Curnow, a junior in Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy, is joining 17 other students for a trip to Des Moines sponsored by the School of Education's Service Learning Certificate Program.

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