The Big Picture portion of Boston.com always has some compelling content. They have a 3 part special on the Year in Pictures - it is sort of like a BBC/NPR special in about 100 high resolution photos, a handful quite graphic and unsettling but a picture of the global reality.
If interested
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Speaking of unsettling and graphic, remind me never to go to a school board meeting.... 4 minutes of frightening. A very small portrait of (apparently) economic stress.
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