He waited until the polar expeditionary group was less than 150 miles from its target before he broke the news that Evans would not be part of the group of five who were to make the final assault on the South Pole.

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The man who shot dead a polar bear that attacked a group of students in Norway has been released from hospital.

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Rocker Patti Smith and US string group Kronos Quartet have received the 2011 Polar Music Prize.

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Polar filed countersuits, one for hoarding and one accusing Cisneros Group of airing the accusations on its TV network to defame it.

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He tags along on a 1960s expedition to Greenland and saves the day when the group runs out of food, by felling a polar bear with a single shot.

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At Duluth's Lake Superior Zoo, where a group of barnyard animals drowned in the flood, and a polar bear and two seals temporarily escaped, 200 volunteers dug out exhibits from mudslides and cleaned out debris on Saturday.

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The Polar Music Prize was founded by Stig Anderson, the manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, in 1989.

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"We were 50 companies just independently attached by a group of similar shareholders, " he explains, sitting in his spacious yet unpretentious office at Empresas Polar headquarters in Caracas.

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