Theodore Beckles, a 19-year-old student at Independence High School, was fatally stabbed in September in a fight with a student from the High School for Environmental Studies, which shares the same building as Mr. Beckles's school on West 56th Street.

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One ad features a Kentucky high school student who suffers asthma attacks from being around cigarette smoke.

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Interviews with investigators and people who knew Mr. Holmes, from his high-school years to his last days as a student, depict a cerebral, quiet man whom none thought capable of violence.

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Professor Viney was helped in his work by a sixteen year old high school student, Mairi Struthers of Wishaw, who collected mucus from land snails housed at Edinburgh Zoo.

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It's a story of a son of Jamaican garment workers, a student from the South Bronx, like me wasn't always at his best in high school, but who went to City College of New York thanks to the support of his family and his friends and his community.

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