Holy &*e%!
Several TV shows being considered for the fall season are using for their storylines the Roman Catholic Church affairs, treating homosexuality and child abuse in church, and some may not be so cool about it…
Wondering about
Is America dissatisfied with democracy? Find out here.
Med
Tea may reduce risk of death after heart attack.

Sometimes the best diet may not be a diet at all.
Tech
Plus, more data on clonation.
The new hot thing seems to be multimedia messaging (MMS), which allows users to send and receive messages with graphics, photos, audio and video.
Finally, for the forgetful, "picture passwords", a new type of technology that involves visual combinations lessening the trouble.
Goodfellas
These two hackers say they hacked into official sites… but only to help government to find out what their vulnerabilities are.
Clinton's show
Uff…that was close enough! Check out this article where Clinton announces that luckily his entertainment ambitions won't be coming true.
   May 19th, Sunday, 2002, ip nº15
Better late than never?
Death Does Them Part (Wives Make Sure of That)


Take a look at this funny piece, an article about the growing tendency of separated graves in Japanese marriages, which by making a review of Japanese women's history shows this new bent as a first step into a more independent lifestyle for wives.

Although, I have to ask, does it have to happen so late in life?
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/09/international/asia/09JAPA.html
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the happiest of them all?
Review: Lauryn Hill's 'Unplugged' draining


Perhaps one of the most deceitful features of stardom would be precisely all that gloss and apparent happiness. And Lauryn Hill, portrayed in this brutally honest article, seems to prove it.

Equally - if not more - interesting are the reporter's opinions, which show people's weariness towards these "stars in pain", but without understanding at all what the origin of that ache is.

In a culture in which the image of success is highly related to doing what you like and earning money for it, in which identifying yourself with a word that defines you seems ineludible, it must be hard for artists (usually considered successful) to go on, even if everybody tell them the tale's ending looks happy.
Link: http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/08/ew.rec.mus.hill/index.html
Demoniac attack
Not Only in America: Gun Killings Shake the Europeans


The latest gun killings -part of a rising tendency- that have stunned Europeans, seem to be awaking a re-examination of their societies, in a place characterized until not long ago by a considerably low level of street violence, a high quality of life, and supposedly gentle manners. Too bad that the conclusion they come up with is that the "American satanic influence", and American cultural products as well, are the cause of this phenomenon.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/international/europe/11SHOO.html?todaysheadlines
An enlightening paradox
Obsessed to remember


Here, an interview to Andreas Huyssen, a German critic who speaks about the voracious obsession with memory so appealing these days, poses a defying and interesting idea, based in the fact that the explosion of memory would only produce amnesia.

Come in and see...
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=980



Medicine Students sue internship system
Medical students are suing over internship system. If they succeed, the nation's healthcare system will be forced to drastically change the way doctors are trained.
More on death penalty legislation: death penalty temporarily suspended in Maryland.
This time authorities have deep concerns regarding penalty's parity.
Also featuring Cultural ads: the advantages of having a stay-at-home husband.
First, it's time of paternity.
And then, Reno backs up gay adoption.

NASA has a new invention: "frozen smoke", check out next.

Also, new findings about what doomed dinosaurs, millions of years ago...
It's all about sex?
The Bush administration is planning to reinterpret the nation's education law to encourage the creation of single-sex public schools, and broaden parents´ criteria when it comes to choosing a school.
Frightening liberties
And finally Justice allows citizens to bear guns.
Feeling down
The story behind Seroxat, the world's favorite antidepressant after Prozac.