Garbage bears

In this Friday, May 8, 2009 picture, a brown bear ...

Photo: The Associated Press

In this Friday, May 8, 2009 picture, a brown bear crushes a regular garbage can at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage has a reputation for being bear tolerant but after three maulings last summer - including a 15-year-old girl who nearly bled to death when attacked by a grizzly in a city park - a chorus of outrage is building.

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