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The bear necessities

No. 1: When in bear country, don’t do what ‘Dora the Explorer’ does.

The secret of success may be to act more like this Dominican street dog.

In striking up casual conversations, he unwittingly exasperates.

Prepping for a speech to a full ballroom, he acknowledged his nervousness.

They like to imagine themselves living in grand fictional homes – or even humble ones.

Her young son is aghast as his life begins to unspool in the local newspaper.

Daunted by his Spanish homework, Anton moans with the belief that it’s a form of punishment.

The annual garden tour is closer than it seems. Good thing pride works as fertilizer.

A child is stung by the resentment of his peers – until he learns he's in good company.

As his father’s car rounded the bend, he would sprint down the street to home.

The bear crashed through the screen door and there, a mere five feet in front of me, was a jumbo-sized snout.

Steered away from kids' fare as a child, he now demands only the best at every meal.

Bored of the beach, a tourist attends a local church service.

As talk goes nuclear, a journalist gets a taste of the culture.

The comic-book version of Superman’s earnest, accepting hometown sounds like just the place.

His father played on a basketball team in the state finals. His son sets out to find the rest of the story.

This time, it was quite serious – how to appeal to boys? A quick-thinking mother comes to the rescue.

Inspired to make a jacket for a newborn, an uninitiated knitter realizes it takes a village.

On a snowy night near Tolstoy's house, a tongue-tied American tries to summon the courage to converse.

A photographer stumbles on a timeless scene in the mazelike Indian slums.