Possible Paper Subjects (in no particular order)
Titanic
Agent Orange
Black Death (14th century)
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster
de Haviland Comet
Thalidomide
The Great Fire of London
Mercury poisoning of hatters
Texas City Explosion
London Subway Fire
The Northeast Blackout (2000's)
The Northeast Blackout (1960's)
Spanish Flu Epidemic (~1918)
Lockheed Electra
Minamata mercury poisoning
Quebec bridge
DES
Vickers Viscount
The London Plague of 1665
Tey Bridge disaster
The origin of AIDS
Alaska Airlines crash
Radium poisoning of watch dial painters
Hindenberg
Aloha Airlines mid-air loss of fuselage skin
Mid-air collision near German-Swiss border in this century
Vioxx
Phosphorous poisoning of match workers
Air New Zealand crash at Mt. Erebus
Phen-fen
Love Canal
Scrotum cancer of chimney sweeps
Catastrophic dam failures in China 1975
These descriptions are admittedly quite sketchy, but we think you will be able to identify them through Google. If you have trouble, ask us.