Picachu the king

Don´t be surprised if your son gets a C in Biology, but can remember strange names and complex plots from japonese animé.
Kids are different these days...you should know by now.
Allergic to sex

Headaches, feeling just too tired for that...
You have run out of excuses?. Well, here´s a new one called "post-orgasmic illness syndrome", it's infallible..
To choose or not to choose

Learn about some of the brain processes that determine human choices.
Med
Similarities between chimps & men brains could help understanding many diseases.

Study reveals gene linked to breast cancer.

And Autism rate is increasing faster than any other disease.
Tech
Researchers with the help of DNA chips could improve organ transplant.

Plus, human genome map could be ready in 2003, according to this piece.
Brilliant minds
The career of the future is here, and it involves playing your favorite games...your own games.

And a 24-Hour video game channel set to launch.
Something we all know
Firm aims to 'computerize' common sense.
   Sunday 28th April, 2002, ip nº13
Young minds (with hope towards future)
Baby boomer pain is big business


Take a look at this article about the increasing demand of alternative medicine and pain management solutions surged as response to the baby boomer's generation needs. This latter represented by people in their mid 50s, with optimistic expectations in the present medicine, and move for the desire of a longer and enjoyable life.
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=4433
Plus, an article about how doctors are rethinking care practices, in order to revert people's opinion on the impersonal treat in medical consults and the obsolete and ineffective character of some of the contemporary medicine aspects.
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=4437
A great publicity campaign
Net blamed for marital breakups


Sometimes it looks like some of today's life models would have a great publicist that always makes them look right, without ever questioning them, and is always promoting them no matter what...

Like when we are said that's the almighty Internet what can ruin a marriage, seemingly in search of an excuse rather than to examine the phenomenon more honestly, or when we are constantly warned about the "terrible" risks of not having a child on time, encouraging maternity instead of a career or self-realization

A pair of pertinent examples, here.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/04/15/internet.breakup/index.html
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/parenting/04/16/waiting.for.baby

And whether they are reports, books, or adds, we quite often receive the same insisting invitation, like the kind of one you end up accepting a bit in resignation, or like the one you perhaps choose to refuse.

See these Jockey Club adds, always promoting good stuff...
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_13_5.html
Destiny's path
Israeli Independence Day: Reflection, Not Fireworks


Follow by an interesting article, with the Israelis' perspective of the situation they are going through, showing a lot about youth's resignation towards reality perceived as unchangeable, and the acceptance of the war, death, and even the homeland, as a part of some already figured out scheme.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/17/international/middleeast/


And then, a quest for finding the meaning of so many deaths reveals an intriguing and rather narrowing view about life.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/international/middleeast
The next best thing
It's on the house


Finally, the next couple of short pieces portrait two different nowadays' movements; after reading you will perhaps experience a "deja vú" sensation and a bit of confusion.

This has its cause in the fact that these "new" movements have apparently not only similar roots, but the same. And whether they are fighting against copyright or the system, they are all based on the same ideas, and remind us of other old movements and ideologies (globalifobics, communists, punks, etc).
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=4451
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=4452

CNN, April 16 , 2002.



Feeling Uneasy
More on privacy threatening dispositions...

Canada's battle over surveillance cameras, base on citizen privacy's intrusion.

A debate over medical privacy rules and the suspicious measures during Bush's mandate.

And judge´s blocking of U.S. intend of banning suicide law, overcomes early ruling.

A compilation of some of the successes occurred in this area last year, to refresh your memory.
One step forward, one backwards..
An Illinois panel is revising death penalty, specifically reducing the circumstances warranting execution.

And Bush seeks to forbid all kinds of clonation.

Strange stars suggest new kind of matter.

Here, a piece from early this month, about a discovery that could bolster prospects of finding life in Mars.
After, info on earth's origin and age.

Music industry in crisis: commercial value of music widely devalued.
Is marketing good enough? Industry desperately tries to attract consumers, while the new generation grows with a new concept: not EVER paying for music.