Wukong represents a polar end of the file-sharing spectrum, pulling down dozens of DVDs, hours' worth of music and multiple applications every month.

FORBES: LimeWire, BitTorrent and BearShare...Oh My!

Just as Olbermann and Napolitano are joining forces in denouncing the current plans for discovering spending cuts, two other polar opposites are pitching for an end to corporate welfare: Ralph Nader and the Cato Institute.

FORBES: The Wolf and The Lamb Deficit Plan

The end of a bi-polar American art world is what the 2000 Whitney Biennial at least glimpses.

ECONOMIST: Forget the cowboy boots

Every year, 300, 000 seals meet their end not by mauling from a polar bear, but instantaneously from gunshot or a blow from a club.

ECONOMIST: Seal hunting

Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is a climatologist who realizes, as a slice of the polar ice cap slides into the sea, that the end of the world (or, at any rate, of that half of the world that drives S.U.V.s) is nigh.

NEWYORKER: The Day After Tomorrow

Obviously the Arctic Ocean was nearly or completely ice-free at the end of summer for centuries or even millennia, and still the polar bear survived and the Inuit culture radiated.

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I'll tell you floods, tornadoes, fire etc all those bad things as well as the sea rising and all the polar bears etc and the rainforest getting destroyed so basically global warming is the end of the world and the end of the world will happen one day even if you recycle one million bottles.

BBC: Last Updated: Thursday May 08 2008 11:40 GMT