Though the studies bear sad news about the effects cities have on birds, conservationists see them as opportunities to target their activism.
There are sleepless bears, scary bears, wise old bears, magical bears, sad bears and spaceman bears in the books I've chosen - but all have one thing in common, great storytelling, complemented by pictures that make you want to look again and again.
College football bears some sad news: the Florida International football player Kendall Berry was stabbed to death on campus.
Tiger Woods, struggling horribly for form, clearly under psychological strain and hampered by injury, bears a sad resemblance to the late Spaniard in the closing stages of his own previously glorious career.
So the pope's piercing words -- "Above all, you bear the sad memories of what you were forced to leave behind" -- sailed over their heads into the chill of the afternoon.
"Above all, you bear the sad memory of what you were forced to leave behind, not just material possession, but your freedom, the closeness of relatives, and the familiar surroundings and cultural traditions".
The effect is not merely to communicate the unseen emotional torment storming within him, but to render a sensory experience of rain so visceral that the audience vicariously retreats into the room with Krapp, willing to bear its sad shadows if only to escape the deluge that rages beyond.
"As I got out it was very jovial and the shirt [which bore the words "Sad Mackem Bastard"] got whipped over my head.
The crosses they bore always made me sad.
Andrew Lansley bore the look and sad defiance of a man who knows that he has lost prime ministerial support on a major bill.
