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...from 2004 levels. The resurrection of online advertising is a welcome payoff for Dare, a pioneering and cutting-edge agency that Collier, the former head of London ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), launched in July 2000. Dare survived the dotcom crash and is now reaping the benefits of widespread broadband penetration. And that's making for competition. Not only have other digital-focused small agencies since opened their doors, but most of the large U.S. and European mega-agencies now have digital ad divisions. Dare's top-drawer clients include Vodafone, Sony Ericsson, Unilever and Diageo...
...blocked by Nigerian lawmakers. But even if the war that Dokubo-Asari and others have threatened never comes to pass, the violence could get bad enough to force oil companies to close down more of their land-based installations and concentrate production offshore. The militants' campaign has widespread local support. One of the most popular new songs in the Delta describes a police raid on a house. A young man tells the police that he won't go with them to the station and warns: "If you fire [shoot at] me, I fire you." "There is overwhelming community sympathy...
...Alarmed administrators have some theories about why abuse of Adderall and other "study drugs" like Ritalin are on the rise on college campuses across the nation. There’s no consensus on how widespread these drugs actually are—some studies claim that only 3 percent of students use them, while others say it’s closer to 30 percent—but most researchers seem to agree that the numbers are going up, not down. A study at the University of Maryland showed that Adderall is the third most accessible drug on campus, right after alcohol...
...Hundreds of tourists in town for conventions and vacations were unable to leave the city after Katrina. With widespread power outages and street flooding in the French Quarter and Central Business District, hotels quickly ran out of food and had to help evacuate guests or, in many cases, turn them out onto streets where anarchy had all but replaced the rule of law. New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said the city would request that 3,000 soldiers from the Louisiana National Guard be brought in as an evacuation commenced, both to prevent the widespread looting that happened after Katrina...
Moreover, stemming the tide of immigration depends not on finding ways to make immigration crueler, but on finding ways to help develop the countries where widespread poverty leaves individuals with few choices but risking illegal immigration to the U.S. Although the idea of aiding poorer nations in Latin America has not weighed heavily in the immigration debate—and is not explicitly endorsed by the May-Day coalition—we hope that it is an idea that marchers will consider and support in the future...