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...Corp. spent $580 million to acquire Intermix Media, a U.S.-based company whose prime asset is MySpace, a site that lets members share their blogs, photos and favorite music. In March, Yahoo! bought Flickr, a photo-sharing website, for an undisclosed sum. All that activity makes sense, given the rapid growth and expansion of both personal blogs and networking sites like Friendster, LinkedIn and MySpace. Harnessing the power of social networking is viewed as a key component of the soon-to-explode local advertising market, which will be worth $10.9 billion globally by 2009, according to analysts Kelsey Group...
...here before. Between 1968 and 1973 a severe drought across the Sahel killed as many as a quarter of a million people. In The Fate of Africa, an excellent new history of the continent since independence, writer Martin Meredith explains that drought "was only one aspect of the problem." Rapid population growth had forced peasants northward into pastoral areas that were too arid for permanent farms. "The overall result was overgrazing, overcultivation and deforestation on a catastrophic scale." A massive Western relief effort poured some $7.5 billion of aid into the region. "But all the efforts had little lasting impact...
...turf battle that goes all the way back to the Middle Ages but also because it comes at a time when U.S. science is perceived as being under fresh assault politically and competitively. Just last week, developments ranging from flaws in the space program to South Korea's rapid advances in the field of cloning were cited as examples that the U.S. is losing its edge. Bush's comments on intelligent design were the No. 1 topic for bloggers for days afterward. "It sends a signal to other countries because they're rushing to gain scientific and technological leadership while...
...main reason for the rapid economic growth in the economics major (which actually is not all that rapid...) is a recovery from an abrupt decline of about 30% from 1992-95,” Siegfried wrote in an e-mail...
...people say that thirteen is a tough age, because that's when your body starts to take on changes and the worst problem of all occurs-acne. Teenagers have to keep up with the latest technology. Whether its cell phones or video games, technology has been evolving at a rapid pace, making it hard for the average teen to have latest piece of technology. Being a teenager now in my opinion is the hardest of all time periods to be one. Temptation is everywhere and almost everything around us influences us to be someone...