These were books I spilled tears over more than once.

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In high school, Dr. Polychronis's genetics class left me in tears on more than one occasion, and never had I worked harder to earn a "C" on my report card.

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My God, there have been more tears shed on reality TV than by all the war-widows of the world.

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Introducing species from one region of the world into another region has more often ended in tears of sorrow than joy, which is why it is discouraged in guidelines issued by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

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We may not be shedding any tears for Lefty any more than we feel for Gerard Depardieu, who recently left France for Russia to escape taxes, or for the Rolling Stones, who many moons ago left England and recorded Exile on Main Street from France.

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German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Mitterrand's partner in more than a decade of robust European interaction, shed tears, as did as Cuban President Fidel Castro, one of 65 heads of state and government on hand.

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Connie was open-mouthed and close to tears when Norton announced the result after more than two million votes.

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Well more than a quarter million people have made a trail of tears to some other reach of the state, or the nation.

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