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...bears come ashore by the hundreds to wait for the autumn refreeze. So it's where tourists and scientists go, to gawk at and study the huge white predators. Just south of Churchill, the Canadian government recently created Wapusk National Park (wapusk means "white bear" in the indigenous Cree language) to protect the area where pregnant females dig their dens. (See the top 10 invasive species...
...park where hunting is banned is what Rockwell calls a "food mecca" for grizzlies. Wapusk is home to some 7,000 caribou, an equal number of moose and untold numbers of rabbits, fish, geese and other creatures. When Rockwell and his team ask the real experts - the Cree elders whose ancestors have lived there for generations - they say, "Why would a bear that's found a huge food source go someplace else?" according to Rockwell. (See pictures: "Bye-Bye, Panda Tai Shan...
...white blue-collar voters harboring serious doubts about his candidacy. So on Monday, a day before the primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, the last question Obama took at a "town hall" meeting got to the heart of the matter. Diana Allen, 39, an employee of LED light manufacturer, CREE, who identified herself as an undecided Democratic voter, said the most important thing for her was victory. So, she asked Obama, what can you say about how you would win the election in November...
...other films, Apocalypto seeks to deliver enough pre-Columbian punishment--like the decidedly non-CGI mauling of a character by an animal--to rival the medieval gore of Braveheart. "I get pretty banged up in some pretty awful ways," says film newcomer Rudy Youngblood, 25, the Comanche and Cree Indian from Texas who plays Jaguar...
...Gibson is quick to note that Apocalypto is less dependent on dialogue than most movies, and as a result, he looked for people who could express as much with their faces and actions as they do with their lines. Newcomer Rudy Youngblood, 25, a movie-star handsome Comanche and Cree Indian who plays the Apocalypto hero named Jaguar Paw, grew up in Texas and had been a grass dancer with the Native American Dance Theater before Gibson found him last year. "As a dancer, I know how to tell a story with my eyes and my body, which...