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* The [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37358255#37358255 live coverage] of the BP oil leak.
* The simple, tender sincerity in [http://www.futilitycloset.com/2005/05/13/i-am-alone-without-you/ a love letter] that physicist Richard Feynman wrote to his wife, Arline, two years after she died.
* On June 4, 2010, Richard Butler planned to propose to his girlfriend, Bethany Lott, at the top of a hill. Near the top, she said to him, "God, baby, look how beautiful it is." 30 seconds later, she was suddenly [http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100608/NEWS/306080033 struck by lightning and killed]. He put the engagement ring on her finger while the
* Read [[wikipedia:Murder of Junko Furuta|this.]] The level of suffering this poor girl was put through can only be described as inhuman. And worst of all? "Possibly a hundred different people" knew about it and did nothing to stop it.
* The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The ruining of wetlands along the Gulf coasts and the pictures of oil-coated birds and turtles. And those are just the direct effects. The ecology of the area will be damaged for decades to come. And the worst part about it is that it was all preventable, but human greed and stupidity trumped all else.
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