Taking the Bears to Task
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Prominent bloggers are trading barbs over whether their fellow pundits have been far too optimistic or pessimistic about the economy.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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A federal agency is poised to say whether global warming means the bear should be added to the 'threatened species' list.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- After watching backup quarterback Jonathan Quinn&#39;s Bears debut, the message to Rex Grossman is an urgent one: Get well soon.
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Lake Forest - While Lovie Smith is holding off to announce a decision about the quarterback situation, there is little choice but to turn to Chad Hutchinson when the Bears take the field against the Vikings in eight days.
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Staff at Berlin&#39;s internationally renowned zoo were working to restore public confidence yesterday after a 110kg South American bear escaped from its enclosure and spent more than half an hour frolicking in a children&#39;s playground before being knocked out
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Group of Eight leaders seeking to focus on climate change and Africa at their summit this week may find it hard not to be distracted by the Russian bear glowering in the room.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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By JOHN FLESHER  SENEY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Mich. - Tracy Casselman runs a hand over the smooth, gray bark of an American beech, noting the scratch marks left by black bears that have clambered up the tree to munch nuts rich in fat and protein.
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It's going to take a really good team to stop the red-hot Philadelphia Eagles. Right now, mediocre is a reach for the Chicago Bears.
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MAPLEWOOD, N.J. - The last thing Lorraine Grossman expected to see as she gazed out the kitchen window of her daughter's home was a 211-pound bear. &quot;I was making a pot of coffee, and I turned around and there he was in the window looking at me,&quot; said Grossman.
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New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife biologist Kelcey Burguess tending to an approximately 400-pound black bear that fell from a tall tree in a Maplewood back yard after being shot with a tranquilizer Sunday. The bruin was believed to have come from the nearby South Mountain Reservation.
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JUNEAU, Alaska - A family is mourning the loss of a beloved apple tree but they believe they know who the culprit was: a hungry brown bear. "There is a bear out there that will rip a tree down," Lavena Sargent said Tuesday morning, a day after returning from a caribou hunting trip...
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LAKE FOREST - The Chicago Bears played defense the way coach Lovie Smith envisioned, swarming to the ball and making the New York Giants cough it up.
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Lovie Smith can understand the scrutiny of Jonathan Quinn a day after his debut as the Bears quarterback. His focus on the team is elsewhere, however.
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A fragment of a bear skull in a Canadian museum may be rewriting the history of North America's brown bears.
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IRVING, Texas -- The Bears broke out throwback uniforms from their 1946 championship season for a national-television audience, but their offense remained stuck in the present.