Word: polarity
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Germany just can't get enough of little polar bears, but its zookeepers seem unsure about how best to deal with them. Earlier this week the country's tabloid press agonized over the deaths of two tiny Eisbär cubs in a Nuremberg zoo, who were presumably eaten by their inexperienced mother, Vilma, after zookeepers decided not to intervene. Then on Wednesday, a fresh round of photographs and videos revealed that a third cub at the same zoo had been "rescued" by zookeepers after another mother, Vera, showed signs of rejecting her offspring. "Sweet, sweeter, sweetest!" cooed the daily...
...they are six weeks old. Despite an infrared camera and sound recording device inside the cave, the zookeepers noticed too late that the cubs were no longer making any noises. Only after they heard the mother banging against the bars did they investigate, finding no sign of the young. Polar bears often eat their cubs if they believe they are ill, though zookeepers have no clear picture if that instinct is what motivated the mother bear...
...emblazoned across the top. What better gift can you give your kids this holiday season than the fear that it will never snow again? I only hope that there isn’t a two-dimensional rendering of the movie’s animation of the last polar bear drowning. Six months after seeing that, I still wake up crying at night...
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...suite and brought along members of the Harvard Glee Club, who immersed the winners in song while others doused them with champagne. Sarafa said the first thing he would do as vice president-elect was to keep the promise he made to the Alaska Klub and swim in the Polar Bear Plunge this past Saturday morning. Sundquist said he would “hopefully start going back to class soon,” adding that he and Sarafa would soon sit down to go over plans for their term, which begins next semester. Fellow candidate Frances I. Martel...