Simple kind of life
One of the most popular TV shows comes to an end. After several years and many conflicted relationships, Ally McBeal, the show about a workaholic girl looking for Mr. Right, will be no more on the air.
And the bad news are..?
Keep going!
Despite the terrible economical recession, optimism grows high, and consumers´ confidence in America's future seems so certain, that it almost convinced you.
Med
Drug may slow lung cancer.

Definitive surgery can prevent breast and ovarian cancer.
And then, depression is starting to be taken more seriously, and the inclusion of depression screen in checkups seems to prove it. Also, a useful item: a depression atlas.

Plus, obesity may cancel health gains for older people
Tech
Find out about a new revolutionary medical improvement: a bionic eye.
The maze of thought
Creating artificial consciousness?
Listening to your genes
Encoding the DNA sequences as MP3s files, and the controversy behind.

   June 5th, Wednesday, 2002, ip nº16
Between the lines
Brief report: street advertisements


Take a peek at this group of adds focusing for their campaigns on topics like death, happiness, career choosing, family, the search of refuge from the outside world and infancy, among many others.

Let the images speak for themselves.

Enjoy it!
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_16_1.html
The New Jerusalem
Suicide Attacks Certain in U.S., Mueller Warns


Here's an article about the most recent successes regarding safety issues in USA, the possible new terrorist attacks, to be precise. One the one hand, as it has already been said, the US government had apparently received information on the terrorist strike of September 11 in advance. On the other, and what's more interesting, there's the seemingly inevitable nature of things, the general certainty that there will be even worse assaults on US territory, thus forcing people to live with the omnipresent feeling of danger, and turning the whole situation into a natural thing.

It makes you wonder how people would react to this..
Will they get used to this circumstances, to living in a city where your life is threatened?
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/21/national/21TERR.html?todaysheadlines
Cheney´s thoughts on America´s future.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/national/20TERR.html?todaysheadlines
Data on the FBI´s endless incompetence.
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=4392
The lovable hermit
Interview to Neil Young


A journey through Neil Young's life and career. Considered by some a rebel, a pure rock star, here's a real insight into a childish man, a "business refugee" who can't use telephones, wails for the passing of time, and still enjoys playing with toy trains in his isolated ranch.

See it next.
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=1074
The power of saying no
Risky business


Finally, a daring move on the part of US authorities, who are financing and promoting a program that encourage sexual abstinence before marriage for teenagers, and the diverse repercussions it's causing. The program represents a marked approval of marriage as an institution, and a clear denial of teens´ sexuality and power to decide for themselves.
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=1119


UsNews, May 27, 2002.




New times, new measures
How does American corporations prepare themselves for possible terrorist attacks?
More on privacy concerns: Hotmail policy raises questions.
Read the article here.
Also featuring: Amnesty report raps post-Sept.11 policies
It appears that Bush's administration has infringed many more than just a few civil rights, Amnesty International reports.
Afterwards: Music Industry doesn´t give up, and company's new strategy endangered by a marker.
A legal alternative for file shearing.

And a felt-tip marker cracked Sony Music's elaborated disc copy-protection technology.

Cold, dark matter, the key of a new theory.
Organ donation on the rise: donating to strangers, a new tendency.
Donating spear organs to someone you don´t know. Solidarity at its most expression.
Read it next.
Beaten dog
Finally, a few words by Damon Albarn - leading singer in Blur, and one of the creators of the new buzz Gorillaz - on how hard stardom is, and the stigma of being British.