Friends 4 ever With Rachel's pregnancy, the TV show Friends has gained the critics' praise and the audience's favor, evolving towards a more "family format". And because there's nothing better than a long (pretty long in this case, with the 10th season) happy farewell, we may still be getting more unbearable coziness and dull friendship advice for a while. Body Map A scientist is setting up a service to map entire individual genetic codes, in order to foresee terminal diseases and hopefully delay death. Read it next. An aspirin a day could keep Alzheimer's away, doctors say. A cup of warm tea can prevent cell damage, which could lead to cancer, heart diseases and other illnesses. Then, the link between Ecstasy and Parkinson's unraveled. And find out why some HIV patients remain healthy after contracting the virus. Keep that energy Want your batteries never to run out? Unfortunately that's not possible yet, but what you may need is something just like a "micro fuel cell". Chew it as much as you want It has the picture of former presidents on it, it's valuable, and it's plastic. Plastic money is here. Touch n'hear It seems that all you have to do to read these maps is just to listen.		October 4th, Friday, 2002, ip nº28 Here today, gone tomorrow Where have all the young men gone? Abroad Take a look at this curious info: according to the latest 2001 UK census, up to 600,000 people have waved goodbye to Britain to go raving around the world. Most precisely, men traveling abroad (Mediterranean coast, Australia, Canada, etc) and failing to return. Some official reasons are the widening of the university gap years, and the Mediterranean party scene (contributing with a large number of jobs also). An interesting thesis suggests that what is pushing the British to exile is the predominance of work in their culture, and the fact that their society (though it could perfectly apply to other nationalities) is too driven by work as "the" reason to live, leaving in fact little room for actual life. But how thin is the line between looking for a new life and just partying the rest of the old one away? Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=338301 Then check this article that says what the statistics appear to confirm is the so-called "Bridget Jones" phenomenon of women struggling to find husbands. Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news The power of victimization Web Site Fuels Debate on Campus Anti-Semitism The web site Campus Watch (www.campus-watch.org), a site devoted to identify college professors who don't support American efforts in the Middle East, and to tell people on the dangers of political Islam, have spurred quite a controversy. The thing is that the web site (which contains "dossiers" on individuals and institutions) may be imperiling freedom of expression, and even worse, it's turning the Arab-Israeli debate into an alleged anti-Semitic thing, undermining the debate itself, and opting for the "world against the Jews" self-pitying discourse. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/education/27COLL.html?todaysheadlines Next, a book that's causing worldwide scandal, "The industry of the Holocaust", which denounces the cultural and political lobby carried out by the Jewish-American elites. Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_28_3.html Waiting for the world to change "While they're young, the world belongs to them" Here, an interview to the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. Although he dives in many interesting issues (men's stupidity, death, euthanasia, love and marriage as a refuge) gracefully, the peak of this piece is not other than the very last part of the dialogue. There, he calmly explains this world doesn't belong as much to him as it does to the young, that Europe (a senseless world that he dislikes) has no future, and that young people should be looking for this brighter future. It seems as if the very skeptic nature he claims is so necessary these days, has turned him into an old man who only complains for the state of things. Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_28_4.html		Privacy Issues Info on the now legalized school drug tests on students involved in extracurricular activities, and the debate they are causing. Go to privacy concerns section, clicking here. Music biz news: Recording industry has asked for the Congress' blessing to mess up the online networks that allow users to share copyrighted material. Are online users giving up territory? Hard as it may be to believe, not few are paying for the music they download. On Clonation The UK is about to ban human reproductive cloning. Find out more. To read more news on this topic, go here. On death penalty A second ruling by another federal judge has established that the federal death penalty law is unconstitutional. Extra News On the euthanasia debate: An online campaign in favor of euthanasia going bigger. Find out all about the stress epidemic manifested in children - in the specialists' opinion hugely attributable to education and family. And teens are most likely to have sex at home than previously thought.