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...What a dire time to launch a new ad platform aimed at small- and medium-size businesses! But that's just what MySpace is doing today, with a roll-your-own ad service called MyAds...
...outlook is dire for both automakers. Chrysler, as a private company, doesn't release quarterly financial information but it has confirmed that it lost $1.9 billion in 2007. (The German corporation Daimler, which still owns 19.9% of Chrysler said the American carmaker lost $510 in the first quarter of 2008.) GM lost $15.5 billion in the second quarter and is expected to post additional losses when it reports its third quarter results at the end of October...
While the impact of climate change on human populations is likely to be dire, we're pretty good at adapting to change overall. Animals, however, are not. When their habitats change irrevocably - when the rain forest dries up or cool mountains in tropical zones heat up - animals may simply go extinct. A recent study in Science demonstrates how that can happen. Robert Colwell, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, analyzed data from nearly 2,000 species of plants, insects and fungi in the tropics, where organisms often lack the ability to escape warming temperatures by going north...
...puzzled. Based on the descriptions, internet addiction seemed utterly dire. I expected to be whisked away to a clinic with an optimistic name like “Wireless Promises” and slowly nursed back to health by a team of experts. Instead, no one seemed to think I had a problem. And perhaps there was good reason for this. Perhaps “Net Addiction” is not so much a constant danger that looms over people who know and use the internet as it is a fear of people who don?...
...Indeed, many of the case samples cited on the website ComputerAddiction.com, the online face of Harvard Medical School’s Computer Addiction Study Center in Belmont, Mass., sound more like jokes from “The Office” than indicators of anything dire: “A corporate department head stays late each night to meet deadlines. In-house monitoring of computer use reveals he frequently accesses inappropriate sites, including gambling and pornography...