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There are more tigers kept as 'pets' in captivity - especially in private ownership in the U.S. - than there are tigers living in the wild worldwide.

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Research shows starting school at 10 a.m. benefits teenagers, whose growing bodies need more sleep — cutting illness by up to 50% and significantly boosting grades.

The bacterium destroying millions of olive trees in Italy — causing over €5.5 billion in yearly damages — was traced to a single infected coffee plant imported from Costa Rica in 2008.

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