The day seemed like any other at school for the Mercedes-driving 19-year-old later identified as the tweeter: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
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In the United Kingdom, there has been a decline in pupils walking, cycling or getting buses to school - with a corresponding rise in parents driving children to the school gates.
Elsewhere in Canada, especially British Columbia and Ontario, dissatisfaction with public-school standards is increasingly driving parents to pack their children off to private schools.
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This is driving school, Texas-style, and it's not for the faint of heart.
"I've never seen a game where the players are so passionate with so few people watching, " said Nderabakura Louis, the 22-year-old manager of the driving school.
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We went together to the high-school auditorium in our old car, Mother driving.
In high school, Alan watched his friends come of age -- driving around town with their new licenses, earning some extra cash from their summer jobs at the mall.
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This is the brainchild of Ave Lauringson, who found herself talking to a friend about teaching school kids to code in December 2011, while driving cross-country.
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She is currently driving a 2012 Prius Plug-in on a high school and college book and speaking tour across the U.S., sponsored in part by Toyota Motor USA, through May 2012.
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But Ms Teather said the government would support it in setting up as an independent, not-for-profit social enterprise "to carry on its outstanding work driving up the quality of school meals".
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