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Forty-one sperm whales beached themselves on the Oregon coast. But about a dozen members of Greenpeace felt they had to try to save them from their fate. Attempting to use manpower to pull the whales back out to sea, they looped ropes around their…

Forty-one sperm whales beached themselves on the Oregon coast. But about a dozen members of Greenpeace felt they had to try to save them from their fate. Attempting to use manpower to pull the whales back out to sea, they looped ropes around their…

A sperm whale beached on the shore of the Oregon coast. The whales, weighing from six to twenty-five tons each, could not be budged. Most of them died slowly, their lungs collapsing from the weight of their own bodies.

This Bloomingdale, IL, woman had expected marriage to have its ups and downs, but a flat tire on the way to her own wedding reception was a little more than she bargained for.

Fire fighters worked in shifts to put out the blaze in minus twenty degree temperatures. Twenty nine people were forced to flee the building during the early morning hours and were left homeless. Hotel was covered with icicles from the water used…

Ice surrounding a city.

Sunrise on the water.

Kurt Waldheim, a secretary general of the United Nations since 1972, pauses thoughtfully during a question-and-answer session at a Detroit press conference.

Florie Darnell cooks meals for a shut-in friend.

This old gentleman, towel draped over his head, became confused, and started to wheel away from the group. Suddenly he was off the curb and, at the same time, a city bus driver struggled for control on the wet pavement. He stopped 6 inches from the…