In this funny clip, ten rookie educators from Teach for America tell Letterman why they entered the teaching profession.
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]]> On the Manly Ferry to the city Novak Tonkin
Zeus is 15-years-old, deaf and blind. His owner isn’t ready to just let him die yet though. Instead he is taking Zeus on an adventure, traveling all around Australia
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]]> The so-called unicorn horns once prized by Renaissance collectors &thought to have magical powers likely belonged not to mythical white horses but to the chunky, odd-looking whales we know as narwhals, which are now among the marine animals threatened
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]]> If his mother could see him now—her beloved boy, alive and well, and cherished, in a land of love and plenty. If she could see the way he sauntered out of the rescue trailer, swift and surefooted as a deer, the way he glided into this welcoming world
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]]> Critically endangered Javan leopards have been caught on digital camera traps in West Java. If you have been following conservation news, you know that the Formosan Cloud Leopard was recently declared extinct. They were driven into extinction by human
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]]> While Ty reclined drowsily in the back of Vernon Yates' white pickup, about a dozen reporters and photographers stood less than 2 feet from his open cage, snapping photos of him - and of themselves, standing within inches of the 400-pound Siberian tiger
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]]> Scottish wildcats, the U.K.’s only remaining species of wild feline, look a little bit like adorable grey tabbies, slightly on the large size, with a bushy striped tail. But the species lived in Scotland long before any domestic relatives—or humans—
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]]> Nestled away in the tall pines of East Texas is a place where the big cats are free to roam and roar as they please.
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]]> While the growth of the Siberian tiger population has provided some comfort to animal protection experts, increasing human-tiger conflicts in northeast China have created new challenges.

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]]> As a member of the Spiders From Mars backing band alongside Mick Ronson on guitar & Mick Woodmansey on drums Bolder played on a host of classic Bowie albums, including 'Hunky Dory', 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
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]]> Justine Renhard is a 42-years-old, and living in England who has rescued a lot of animals. Among them, Justine has had the opportunity of rescuing both chicken hens from battery cages as well as chicken hens from the new enriched cages
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]]> A prominent member of the Westboro Baptist Church is drawing a link between the Oklahoma tornado's devastation and a local team's support for openly gay NBA star Jason Collins.
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]]> The Obama administration's 2009 promise to create a seamless, computerized health record system for veterans proves elusive. Jon Stewart may do this in a humorous way, but at the end, he lets everyone know, there is nothing at all funny about this.



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]]> Meet Cameron D’Ambrosio. He’s 18 and lives in a small town outside Boston. He wants to be a rapper and calls himself “Cammy Dee” in his YouTube videos.
Oh, and he’s been locked up without bail for weeks — facing terrorism charges and 20 years in prison
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]]> Ambassadors from every state arrive en masse to buttonhole congress reps
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]]> Today I propose that we all tweet to Dunkin' Donuts (@dunkindonuts) urging them to phase out their Styrofoam cups. We can make a difference!
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]]> Reusing is always noble, but sometimes it's tricky to gauge the results.
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]]> This is heartwarming as all hell. Would you have had this kind of courage?
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]]> A litter box? What is this, a penitentiary? How about a litter ROOM? Oh, and these other things ...
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]]> He acts like a total jerk to me, but I just can't quit! I mean, really, I can't. This is adoption, silly!
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]]> Are you guilty of "racial profiling" when it comes to cats? If you believe that a cat will act a certain way based on breed, then maybe you are.
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]]> It's a physical thing. It's a psychological thing. They're small. They're big. They're ... perfect!
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]]> It is hard not to love butterflies. These winged insects are benign, and their wings are extremely beautiful. Most people are familiar with the average sized butterflies like the Monarch, or the Hawkmoth. However, there are butterflies and moths in the
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This isn’t your average “hello.” It’s one part meow, one part greeting and one part freaking adorable.


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]]> For a pair of bobcat kittens, home may have once been a freight train car.
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]]> Many people still believe the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) survives in the wilds of Tasmania, even though the species was declared extinct over eighty years ago. Sightings and reports of the elusive carnivorous marsupial, which was the top
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]]> This is the last picture of the two children alleged to have been murdered by their British father following a bitter custody battle.
The boy and girl were caught on CCTV clutching balloons and waiting patiently as
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]]> A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service will have to stop dragging its heels on lynx protection
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]]> It might seem petty to envy a cat, but look at the cats in these photos! Of course I'm jealous!
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]]> Summer is fire season in the U.S., so it's a good time to be prepared for action.
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]]> A six-week-old Amur tiger cub, whose ancestors are from Siberia, has made its media debut at the Pittsburgh Zoo.
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]]> Ray Manzarek, the founding keyboardist for the Doors, passed away this morning in Germany, according to a statement from his publicist. The cause was bile duct cancer.
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Watch this lovable snuggle session between a beautiful cat and her kitten!


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]]> A 'miracle baby', who survived a car crash which killed five members of his family, was zipped up in a body bag and taken to a mortuary before medics realised he was alive.
Little Eisa Hayat, one, was the sole survivor of a car smash which wiped out
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]]> A Shetland pony adopted an orphaned lamb and even let it feed from her after it was left on its own in the wild.
The bond between the two animals is even more remarkable as the pony had a foal of its own that it was also feeding.
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]]> We interpret Alfred Mainzer's Dressed Cat postcards, where bipedal cats do "people things."
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]]> four of the best
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]]> As reported on several occasions, efforts to save big cats from extinction need necessarily go hand in hand with efforts to up the population of their prey.

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]]> HRH The Prince of Wales (WWF-UK’s President) and HRH The Duke of Cambridge are hosting a high-profile international conference at St James’s Palace on 21 May, in collaboration with the UK government, to focus world attention on the urgent battle to end
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]]> Upwards of 10 million migratory birds are killed each year
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]]> The French actress Brigitte Bardot invites the Thailand Prime Minister watching a documentary made by Thai activists posted on YouTube titled "Hell on Earth - Thailand's Dog Meat Trade". / PLEASE SIGN SOI DOG PETITION!!!
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]]> Our Care2 friend Rosemary P's precious Plummie has crossed the Rainbow Bridge to be with her beloved fur angels. If you would like to light a candle and leave a message please do...
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]]> The French star has written a scathing letter to Fortnum & Mason's chief executive Ewan Venters, labeling him an "imbecile" for promoting the controversial pate, which is made from the engorged livers of force-fed geese. SIGN THE PETITION!
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]]> When using a GoPro to capture unusually close footage of grizzly bears for the Great Bear Stakeout for BBC, I had a young bear actually chew on the camera. Amazingly there was no damage to the camera!
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]]> How do you safely translocate 10 greater one-horned rhinos?
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]]> FIAPO thanks MoEF for releasing the policy stating that they will not allow dolphinariums to be established in India
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]]> When this little girl tripped and fell as she ran alongside a sea lion's tank, her parents weren't the only ones who showed concern.

As this footage shows, the sea lion itself stopped abruptly and turned back on itself to check that her young playmate
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