They said many measures - including taxes on unhealthy food, restrictions on junk food advertising, traffic light labelling and school-based education programmes - would save money as well as benefit health.

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One reason for the relatively large high school completion rate is that the United States offers a number of "second chances" for students to obtain a high school diploma, including attendance at special school-based programs and obtaining a General Education Credential (GED) credential, usually by passing a high school equivalency examination.

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With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a single idea:that amorphous and disordered materials could be better and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.

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