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This photo taken on March 3, 2014, and provided by the North Dakota Health Department, shows bags full of radioactive oil filter socks, the nets that strain liquids during the oil production process, piled in an abandoned building in Noonan, North Dakota. State Waste Management Director Scott Radig said the hundreds of the tubular filters discovered last week in the abandoned building is likely to be more than twice as large as the state's next-largest dumping incident found last month in McKenzie County. (AP Photo/North Dakota Health Department)

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Adam Hayward yells after warming up before an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, at Wembley Stadium in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse from TWT staff. (Golden Hammer cropped logo)

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African elephants can differentiate between human languages to detect danger, suggesting that the largest land animals on Earth are even more intelligent than previously thought, a new study revealed. (Wikipedia)

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Wake Forest head coach Jeff Bzdelik watches his team during an NCAA college basketball practice for the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Wake Forest plays Notre Dame in a first round game on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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President Barack Obama finishes signing a document proclaiming the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. From left are: Scott Schneider, President and CEO, Visit Mendocino County Inc.; Leslie Dahlhoff, Former Mayor, Point Arena; Michael Boots, Acting Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Neil Kornze, Principal Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management; Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.; Nancy Sutley, Former Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama signs a document proclaiming the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. From left are: Scott Schneider, President and CEO, Visit Mendocino County Inc.; Leslie Dahlhoff, Former Mayor, Point Arena; Michael Boots, Acting Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Neil Kornze, Principal Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management; Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.; Nancy Sutley, Former Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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FILE - This Oct. 14, 2011 file photo shows Sumner Redstone in Los Angeles. George Washington University is getting $80 million to address public health challenges from philanthropic groups connected to Michael Milken and Sumner Redstone. The gifts include $40 million from the Milken Institute to support research and scholarships and $30 million from the Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation to help expand wellness and disease prevention. A $10 million gift from the Milken Family Foundation will support, in part, a new public health scholarship program. The university is renaming its public health school as the Milken Institute School of Public Health for the 1980s junk bond king. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)