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Man Fought Polar Bear Wins Carnegie - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 1st Jan, 2004 - 9:40pm
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Post Date: 23rd Dec, 2003 - 8:31pm / Post ID: #
Man Who Fought Polar Bear Wins Carnegie
PITTSBURGH - A Canadian man was one of 15 people awarded a Carnegie Medal on Monday for an act seemingly pulled straight from the tall tales of the American frontier.
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I tried to read this story but it didn't work. This guy got an award for what? defending himself from a bear or for a show fighting with a bear?
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this link might work better 
I don't think he was very smart to attack with a pocket knife, but it seemed to work...
"Dr. Eric Fortier, 34, used a pocket knife to attack a polar bear on Canada's Baffin Island, just south of the Arctic Circle, to save two friends who were being mauled."
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