#1 justice system
a: Abdul Shanwaz: an Afghan refugee and former torture victim who was sent to jail in Canada
b: Patrick Kinlin: a Canadian/American businessman who went to jail for fraud but kept working

#2 air anger
a: Donald MacQuarrie: a Canadian university professor who was drunk when he got onto a flight to Hawaii
b: Unnamed Passenger: a disturbed passenger who almost caused a disaster on a flight to Nairobi

#3 law suits
a: Linda Hunt: a Canadian woman who ignored her boss' advice and drove home drunk
b: Joshua Fleuelling: a young Canadian man who died after an unnecessarily long trip to hospital

#4 success stories
a: Oseola McCarty: a washer woman in the Southern United States who started a scholarship fund
b: Suh Sang-Rok: a Korean executive who became a waiter after his company went bankrupt

#5 immigration troubles
a: Estrella Mendez: a Canadian immigration consultant who encouraged her clients to lie to the government
b: Percy Wacker: a Dutch man who was found guilty of killing 58 Chinese migrants

#6 bad accidents
a: Karen Wetterhahn: an American scientist who was killed by a few drops of mercury
b: Scott and Angie: a young Canadian couple whose snowmobile broke through the ice

#7 university people
a David Noble: a Canadian historian of technology who lost a job opportunity because of his political beliefs
b Jan Moor-Jankowski: an American who lost his laboratory because of his animal rights activism

#8 mental illness
a: Susan Dime-Meenan: an American woman who suffered from manic-depressive illness
b: Molly Ahrens: a young American woman who almost died because she refused to eat

#9 imaginary love
a: Martina and Dubravko: an Australian man falls in love with a Czechoslovakian tennis player he sees on TV
b: Tracy and Anthony: a British couple befriend a lonely man who falls in love and makes their lives miserable

#10 sweatshop struggles
a: Juan Santos: a Mexican man who fought to improve salaries and safety at an American-owned factory
b: Sagar Chowdhury: a factory owner who seems to care more about profits than the safety of his workers