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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