Areas of concern are more numerous. Most important, continuing deterioration of the financial health of U.S. automakers is a major risk to ad spending, already visible in the third quarter of 2005, and notwithstanding General Motors Corp.'s recent shift back to incentives.

They have been in a startup mode for a very long time, and have been in a negative cash flow mode for a very long time. If the capital markets became less receptive, you could envision the music stopping and not enough chairs being there.

On the credit perspective, there is a benefit from portfolio diversification. If one of your cylinders is not firing, the others may be.

Obviously, we want Jason in the lineup but his health is the No. 1 concern.

The comparison with PCBs suggests that toxic flame retardants have emerged as a major environmental health concern, ... PBDEs could be as potent a problem as PCBs, which are still polluting people and the environment decades after they were banned. In order to avoid the same outcome with PBDEs, we need to act quickly.

Obviously, it's considered a nuisance, especially dealing with the droppings. There's no immediate health concern with the crows other than an extreme nuisance.