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mileage reimbursement due to a salesman, sorting email and comparing food expiration dates on grocery store tags.
• Not only did Americans score poorly compared to many international competitors, the findings reinforced just how large the gap is between the nation's high- and low-skilled workers and how hard it is to move ahead when your parents haven't.
• In both reading and math, for example, those with college educated parents did better than those whose parents did not complete high school.
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• LONDON (AP) -- A year ago, Malala Yousafzai was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in northwest Pakistan, thinking about calculus and chemistry, Justin Bieber songs and "Twilight" movies.
• Today she's the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt, an activist for girls' education -- and a contender to win the Nobel Peace Prize later this week.
• It's easy to forget she is still a teenager, and now a long way from home.
• The memoir "I Am Malala" goes some way toward redressing that balance. Published around the world on Tuesday, the book reveals a girl who likes "Ugly Betty" and the cooking show "Masterchef," worries about her clothes and her hair, but also has an iron determination that comes from experience beyond her 16 years.
• The book, written with the British journalist Christina Lamb, recounts Malala's life before and after the moment on Oct. 9, 2012, when a gunman boarded a school bus full of girls in Pakistan's Swat Valley and asked "Who is Malala?" Then he shot her in the head.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man who set himself on fire on the National Mall and later died was identified Monday, though police had no more information on his possible reasons.
• John Constantino, 64, of Mount Laurel, N.J., had burns so severe that authorities needed to use DNA and dental records to identify him. District of Columbia police spokesman Paul Metcalf in an emailed statement confirmed his identity.

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