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'Have Mercy On Our Little Ones': Kidnapping Agonizes Nigerians

More than 200 schoolgirls were taken from a remote town, horrifying the country. The government has been blamed for an inadequate response to the kidnapping, and to extremism in general.

Families of kidnapped schoolgirls attend a meeting with the local government in the remote town of Chibok, Nigeria. Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters/Landov hide caption

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'Have Mercy On Our Little Ones': Kidnapping Agonizes Nigerians

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Samuel Habib, seen here at 3 years old, sits in his supportive corner chair in class. Samuel, who has cerebral palsy, is now 14 and is headed to high school. Dan Habib, Samuel's father, is an advocate for inclusion and made a film about his son called Including Samuel. Dan Habib/includingsamuel.com hide caption

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Learning With Disabilities: One Effort To Shake Up The Classroom

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Mark Kelly (left) will stay on Earth while his brother, Scott Kelly, spends a year on the International Space Station. NASA will test how the environments affect them differently. NBC NewsWire/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images hide caption

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Astronaut Twins To Separate For The Sake Of Space Travel

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Dr. Sampson Davis is an emergency medicine physician in Newark, N.J. When he was 17, he committed a robbery that led to his big break. He's written about his return to the hospital where he was born in his memoir, Living and Dying in Brick City. Rainer Hosch/Courtesy of Sampson Davis hide caption

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Without Life-Saving Pact, This Doctor Would Have Been The Patient

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