This is the critical moment for the Coast Guard to act. If this generation of calves is decimated by ship collisions, the species is unquestionably doomed.

The NOAA letter is truly unbelievable.

The right whale needs immediate help to survive, and the Coast Guard can be the species' savior. Taxpayers spend millions each year to monitor right whales and respond to entanglements and other emergencies; all that money, time and effort, as well as this species, may soon be gone if the Coast Guard sits on its hands.

For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

You don't cut somebody up, bag them ... dump them in the bay when you act in self-defense. It just doesn't happen. You can't plan to have an accident. You can't plan to act in self-defense. That's the evidence in this case.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.