The movie, which is in the running for the Golden Bear, the top award at Berlin, couldn't be more timely.

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Campaigners want the running track at Hereford Leisure Centre to bear Mr Tarrant's name.

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But after months of reporting and hundreds of bear sightings, I kept running up against an inconvenient truth: There were a lot of well-meaning, well-credentialed scientists, wildlife officers and local experts who simply didn't believe that polar bears were one ice cube away from extinction.

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The "repricing" has sunk some of the smarter traders, including those running two now-defunct hedge funds at Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ), as well as the traders running money at Goldman Sachs ' (nyse: GS - news - people ) Global Alpha fund and others.

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"Right now every bank on Wall Street is running going-private models on the REIT sector, " says Thomas Flexner, senior managing director at Bear, Stearns.

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