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| | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA USA |
 | | In the United States, education is a state, not federal, responsibility, and the laws and standards vary considerably. |
 | | In most states, all students must attend mandatory schooling starting with kindergarten, which children normally enter at age 5, and following through 12th grade, which is normally completed at age 18 (although in some states, students are permitted to drop out upon the age of 16 with the permission of their parents/guardians). |
 | | In the 20th century, the United States became the center of the two most popular Western combat sports—boxing, which is popular as both a spectator sport and a gambling event, and professional wrestling, which is more scripted entertainment than a true sport. |
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