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Photograph of Brighton Beach seniors by New York Daily Photo

From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious package at Beach 19th St in Queens, a minor collapse in Brooklyn and an all hands fire at Lexington & E 26 St in Manhattan.
Damn it, there's another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but the Department of Interior claims it's negligible, relative to the BP one.
Andrew Cuomo took over $300,000 in donations from lobbyists last year.
A matchmaker who is planning a dinner cruise around the city says, "I have basically matched up 25 of the most awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome bachelors in New York with, believe it or not, 55 of the hottest, smartest, sexiest, most amazing, amazing, amazing women ever, ever, ever." EVER!
Right before a Tennessee man was going to propose to his girlfriend during a hike in North Carolina, she was fatally struck by lightning. He put the ring on her while the EMTs were trying to revive her.
John Krasinski seems to have left the floppy hair at The Office and was filming in Madison Square Park today.
Saving you $11: Here's Paul Krugman's cameo in Get Him To The Greek.
Rep. Charles Rangel, defending the House seat he's had since 1970, is open to the idea of a primary.
Sigh, sad: Gary Coleman's will says that only people who "really cared" for him should attend his funeral.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on June 8, 2010 6:24 PM

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Stevennnn

Life is that short. Nobody knows what may happen from one second to another yet most of us take life for granted and care more about silly things, such as money and material items.

mellow_fellow

Sorry, I'm with KRISTEENYOUNG on this: Life's not short, it's soooooooooooo long.

FrankMartin

Great pic

And the story about the woman being killed by lightning is required reading.

r1b2

How bizarre: the story about the chick who was hit by lightning is in today's Daily news. That story contains a link to another story about record temperatures, but that's from 9 June 2008. WTF?

r1b2

How bizarre: the story about the chick who was hit by lightning is in today's Daily news. That story contains a link to another story about record temperatures, but that's from 9 June 2008. WTF?