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Carolina Hurricanes' Elias Lindholm (16) fires a shot at New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, March 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)
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Wake Forest's Travis McKie, left, and Coron Williams, right, run with the 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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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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This photo taken on March 3, 2014, and provided by the North Dakota Health Department, shows the exterior of an abandoned building in Noonan, North Dakota, where bags full of radioactive oil filter socks, the nets that strain liquids during the oil production process, were found. 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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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)