After two years, he went on to complete high school and enrolled at the University of Liberia where he is currently a student.

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Like Kadyrbayev, he is not a current student at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

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He is also a gifted engineer who as a university student sent a thesis paper to BMW on how to improve the rear design of its racing bikes.

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Mr. Kelley, a former Navy chief master who is now a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, said he had never seen carnage like this.

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But a student is what he is, at St Gallen university, and one of the team handling the logistics of what claims to be the world's longest-running student-run management conference.

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Now a student at York University, where he is studying English, James said he feels incredibly healthy and has even been able to undertake a couple of long distance cycle rides, one to Paris.

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Ken Mankoff is a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studies ice and ocean interactions.

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Over dinner he says that none of his four sons, the eldest a university student and the youngest just a baby, is likely to continue the family trade, and he and his wife are happy to steer them towards books rather than the butcher's slab.

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