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engagement outside the Louvre Museum in Paris, Michael Myvett and Mattison Haywood were on another adventure, accompanying 44 teenagers on a visit to Myvett's college alma mater.
• The Los Angeles couple volunteered to be chaperones on a charter bus carrying high school seniors on a 650-mile trip from Southern California to Humboldt State University. They died together when a FedEx tractor-trailer slammed into the bus, in a fiery crash that also killed five teens, another adult chaperone and the drivers of both vehicles, officials and relatives said.
• That Myvett, who graduated from Humboldt State with a psychology degree in 2007 and worked with autistic children, was eager to make the trip with the fiancé to whom he had proposed on bended knee made sense to friends and co-workers.
• Haywood was "the love of his life" and "to be a liaison and representative for high school students who wanted to attend Humboldt was in sync with his personality, wanting to facilitate peoples' achievement of their dreams," said Kyle Farris, a colleague at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders in Torrance.
• The bus carried a lot of dreams. It was one of three the northern California college chartered to bring prospective students, many of them hoping to be the first in their families to attend college, to tour its campus before they got busy with prom and graduation.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- As it warns Russia to step back from Ukraine or suffer another financial hit, the U.S. is simultaneously trying to coax along a reluctant Europe, which is trying to balance its desire to punish Moscow against its fear of economic turmoil from the effects of a new, harsher round of Western trade sanctions.
• Economists say the U.S. risks appearing weak without support from Europe, which is Russia's largest trading partner and therefore has huge sway over Russia's already shaky economy. But Europe is far from ready to issue sanctions on Moscow that would undercut its own financial stability while risking its main source of energy.
• The fate of new sanctions -- and how tough they might be -- depends on Moscow's next moves, and whether Russia deepens or pulls back its meddling in Ukraine.
• President Barack Obama already has signed orders that would allow the U.S. to sanction key Russian industries, and European Union foreign ministers will meet

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