For Animals: A Fourth-Grader Gave Her Tooth-Fairy Money to Help Establish a Refuge for Creatures
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 16--Abigail Blake loves animals and wants them to have a good home.   So with the help of the tooth fairy, she did her part to see that they get one at Eagle Mountain Lake.
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Researchers at Idaho State University have received a grant to develop a food pellet vaccine for hatchery rainbow that, if successful, could lead to new ways to vaccinate livestock and even humans.
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By Matt Tullis, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Dec. 18--It's early in the morning and Colo sits in her normal spot, the center of Cage 1. She is wedged between two concrete trees. A milk crate is on her right, and a rope dangles in front of her.
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By Beth Sussman  High school students Nick Anderson and Ana Slavin of Gill, Mass., knew they could raise some money at their school to help the people of Darfur. But they knew they could raise a lot more by enlisting the help of high school students all over the country.
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A pit bull who was recently adopted by a family after wondering onto a construction site may have save a teen girl from a house fire on Friday.
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SALEM, Ore. - Was it a case of cat scratch fever? Or was Tinker, a 14-year-old brown tabby with one eye, just getting back in touch with her wildcat ancestors? Whatever the reason, after a sojourn in Oregon, Tinker is headed back to her Riverton, Wyo., home.
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With fake fins and plastic paws, doctors can rebuild injured animals  -  and also use what they learn to help humans
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - At 12, brown-eyed Neema Laizer persuaded her elementary school teacher to accept one liter of milk each morning instead of money because her father refused to pay for a girl to be educated.
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Thomas Glennon, 11, has 4,000 tokens. He's saving them up to earn a stuffed Bart Simpson, lava lamp, or some other treat. And lest you think Glennon has earned these tokens at an amusement park, think again: They are rewards from the Sylvan Learning center in Norwood, where the fourth-grader is enrolled for reading assistance.
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On a recent day at the busy Walnut Street Dental Clinic in Hagerstown, Md., Ilaya Rajagopal treated an 18-month-old who had six cavities and lectured the child's mother, in his gentle way, about the damage caused by putting a baby to bed with a bottle.
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A 5-year-old girl saved her infant sister from a possible attack by an Australian dingo in a hotel room on an island where the wild dogs killed a boy three years ago.
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CHARITY champs helped boost a Shirley school's kitty by almost pounds 750 following a fund-raising event.
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ASHFORD, Conn. -- An animal welfare group has launched a campaign to raise $15 million for a sanctuary where unwanted dogs, cats, birds and other small domestic animals could live out their lives.
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A pit bull who was recently adopted by a family after wandering onto a construction site may have saved a teen girl from a house fire on Friday.
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Stem cells have been used to save mice embryos from a lethal heart defect.
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A donation to Half the Sky can mean the gift of love for an orphaned child.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Mar. 7--JEROME -- It takes a village to raise a child, they say.   In Magic Valley, it'll take a community -- and a native plant -- to save a dwindling species.