Inuit hunters are finding the sea ice too thin to bear their sleds.

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The prospect of sitting at a desk (probably in front of a computer), with only a thin partition separating you from a sea colleagues is sometimes too much to bear.

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Amid a sea of rumors, firms stopped trusting the Bear's ability to repay, and the bank collapsed.

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Like other Wall Street CEOs, Cayne sat by as Bear Stearns plowed ahead at full speed with no radar in the middle of the night in a sea dotted with icebergs.

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