Fighting the parents
Take a look at the unusual crusade that an Internet activist, Bennett Haselton , is leading, promoting children's right to freely surf the net in the name of intellectual development.
And fighting the bosses too
A new literary genre has been born: memoirs by media people's service or office assistants, who try to cash in on their former employers' popularity.
Med
Therapeutic cloning seems to be promising in cows.

Then, it appears that many of the "new" drugs are just too similar to old ones, a recent study says.

And the AMA is considering reducing residents' labor hours, in sight of the increasing denounces of physicians-in-training falling asleep and mistaking prescriptions.
Not just your imagination
Australian scientists have successfully teleported a laser beam of light.
Deep mysterious sea
As if taken from a science fiction or adventure book, updated researches show there might be something else down there we can't imagine at all.
Come again
A forest service employee was the one to start the largest wildfire in Colorado history.
   June 21st, Friday, 2002, ip nº17
Turn on the lights
Creative Cities and Their New Elite


Take a look at this interesting article that talks about how creativity has come to be something valued, fueling technological as well as industrial development -and therefore allowing regional economic growth-, and about a supposedly new "creative class".

And though this study may lack some insight, and could contain some misleading categories, I think it's worthwhile to read regardless of its fallacies.
Link: http://www.creativeclass.org/nyt3.htm
The induced vacuity
Raquel Welch, a Latin woman


This funny piece over here is about Raquel Welch's public acknowledgement of her Latin inheritance -her father was Bolivian and her mother north American- for the first time in her career, and the incredible value she gives it, even declaring that she has now found herself.

We meet again with a model in which identity (determined by nationality and ascendance) defines personality, and where personal history is vital to build the future.
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=975
Dangerous asymmetry
"The battle between good and evil"


As I read this article -even as I read its title- I start thinking about the concept of opposition. I mean, the disposition to be something or constitute on certain way, in contraposition to something else, absolutely different. And it seemed to fit very well at the time to read Eminem and Moby´s profiles, in the comparison made in this commentary.

And at the same time, there were a lot of clichés in the descriptions such as, the paternal side awaken in Eminem´s case, and the image of loser and extreme vulnerability displayed in Moby´s case, that couldn't be disregarded.
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=4563
Also check out this review of Eminem´s new album, which could be helpful to complete his profile, and is also very representative of the capacity of North American culture to create different poles of criticism towards itself, though the scope may vary, of course.
Link: http://query.nytimes.com/search/full-page?res
Team work
Bush to call on college grads to create 'culture of service'


Finally Bush claims for "a culture of service" and cheers for the community spirit in successive speeches. And some numbers on volunteerism which may surprise you.

In addition, more info on US government most recent actions, this time regarding the creation of a new domestic security office, the Department of Homeland Security, shaped after the strident faults of the FBI and CIA.
About volunteerism.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/13/bush.ohio.state/index.html
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/01/bush.radio/index.html
About the Department of Homeland Security.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/12/bush.security.council/index.html














Privacy issues
On the negative aspect:
Europe's secret plan to access computer and phone data.
Also featuring, medical privacy, not so private, read next.
And a flaw in the IE browser could allow a hacker to take over a user's computer.
And on the positive aspect:
A US court struck down a law obliging libraries to filter material harmful to minors from the Internet.
Cultural Maffia
Music and Movie Industry's efforts to survive
A site called Movie88.com allowing people to stream popular movies to their computer was shut.
Some numbers on music piracy.

And digital TV: a big problem for studios.

A planetary system that resembles ours was found, find out more.
A recent discovery of underground ice on Mars, stunned scientists.
Fast Times
ED NEEDHAM -the new editor of Rolling Stone magazine- talks about people's apparent lack of time to read in a culture inundate with visual media. But is a question of time or quality?
The hard way
A couple of words from Robert Redford about the importance of knowing who you are, and the "unavoidable" artists´ pain vocation.
Followed by some other examples of "burned out celebrities".