Friends! Children! Associated members of the larger IMPORTANT BEAR NEWS community! We're back, and this time, not after so long a gap! What's the reason? Well, for starters — many, many of you have submitted important entries in the ongoing IBN contributor network. (Thanks extended to IBN correspondents Tony Romm, Anna Eusebio, Kat Chow, J. Carlisle Larsen, Lauren Dezenski and more this issue). While a few weeks back, it might have SEEMED like spring was about to tear down the snowy gates of winter — and thus, provide the BEARS an opportunity to awake from their well-earned hibernation — the past few nor'easters that whalloped the IMPORTANT BEAR NEWS cave suggest otherwise. That damned groundhog sure didn't lie, did he? But never fear, dear readers: the bears are still up and at it around our fair world, and with that, as is expected, we pivot: TO THE BEARS!

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We All Have Needs, Even Koala Bears
This Is the Only Bear Battle Allowed
Well, OF COURSE Polar Bears Helped Darwin 
(Polar Bears Love To Science)
Bears Are Friends, Not Nuisances
The Answer? Ageless. Winnie the Pooh Has No Age
But Actually, Who Approved This Film? We Cannot
Bears Have Diabetes, Too, It Turns Out
TAKE ALL OF OUR MONEY
What If Panda, But Good At Sex?
There's ALWAYS A Massachusetts Connection
BE FREE, YOUNG BEARS 

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Bear Stearns (Ursus ruina), former American investment bank, based in Manhattan, with a noted focus on global securities, wealth management and investment banking. Its failure in March 2008 (ten years to the date today, by the way) is widely seen as the first step on the global recession later that year.

food: Subprime mortgages, regular mortgages, the American economy, the global economy, pine nuts, eggs, securities.

habitat:  383 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, NY. 






(via POLITICO Morning Money / Wikipedia)

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