Like the tragedy of the recent California wildfires as well as so many other calamities of our time, each one impacts us all to one degree or another.
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Michael B. Teiger,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2025
Everyone in the audience laughed when the capybara first appeared onscreen, even the little kid behind us who had cried earlier, scared of some of the calamities befalling the feline hero.
Severe weather disasters that result in damage of at least $1 billion now average 23 per year and have doubled since the 2010s, according to Bank of America.
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Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2025
Heroes protect people and society from accidents, disasters, and villains—criminals who use their Quirks for evil.
Those cuts have been felt in the meager US response to the Myanmar quake, according to experts, exposing a void in international relief measures for major catastrophes.
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Rebecca Wright,
CNN Money,
10 Apr. 2025
The ongoing civil war has caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes and diplomatic efforts to bring the conflict to an end have failed.
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