Braking into the mail box of evil Check out this amusing piece that describes the breaking into Saddam's webmail account, and shows the support manifested by many people around the world through mails suggesting better ways to attack US army. A free sample of global opinion, and it's certainly not a positive one. Live, from the horror Here the story of one of the muscovite's hostages, who through his cell phone got to publish some things while he was still inside the Theater, and also the story behind LiveJournal.com, a site that has become fertile soil (off the mainstream media) for government dissidents. Experts have found a compound that could be used to maintain bone health in women after menopause. Find out more on the baby blues, a disease women suffer after childbirth, although only 10% undergo a more severe case with depressive and even psychotic features. Read it next. Plus, curing pancreatic cancer with coffee enemas? And scientists' new revolutionary approach to depression. It seems many parents are having trouble in educating their sons and passing them their values. While pharmaceutical giants try to develop a Viagra for women a spicy debate opens up: should sexual relationships be medicalized and reduced to a mechanical process? What happens when our minds are the problem? And how will these cravings for good sex reflect back in people's desire and self-esteem?		November 1st, Friday, 2002, ip nº31 I say potato, you say potato What happened to the romance? Take a look at this article that talks about the predominance of sex in society, and wonders about the loss of romance and the disadvantages of a "self-gratification culture" where technologies only seem to isolate people and the market has an implicit influence over all our choices (even those related to sex). I would say tech and the publicity machinery have a relative (close to very little) power to affect people's lives. What's even more interesting to see is the need to believe that sex always comes with something else (sometimes may come, others may not), and the urging revalidation the "old-fashioned sex" seems to be craving for. Link: http://www.observer.co.uk/sex/story/0,12550,818295,00.html And check out this poll that offers a thought-provoking piece of information: more than 4 million husbands and wives across Britain have committed adultery. Read next. Link: http://www.observer.co.uk/sex/story/0,12550,820219,00.html A whole set of complexities The truth is in here Enjoy this laid-back interview to the actress Gillian Anderson, a portrait of a brave yet inhibited woman, and a captivating piece which taunts the reader with different issues: self-determination, Anderson's own theories on love and possession, and most of all the dilemma of deciding on safety at any cost. Not surprisingly this dilemma seems to be a constant subject of reflection in Anderson's life, and something that has influenced her a lot (she chose acting as a way to counteract the instability in her life, but she also ended a marriage and left a stable job). The article suggests that the answers are within ourselves, ok, but what makes us pursue stability? Isn't this a self- sabotage so that we don't have to live differently, more excitingly..? Link: http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,819459,00.html A new career path When Just One Gun Is Enough Towards the end, an editorial that reflects on the differences between terrorism and the new so-called "free-lance killers" (such is the case of the US sniper), on how to deal with both situations, and the difficulty of US power structures to manage potential danger situations, but especially to unravel a quantitative simple trouble, such as a man waking up one day, taking a gun and killing everyone around. Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_31_6.html Appeared in US News. To see more statistics click, here .		Here info on the incident in a University in Arizona, where a shooting rampage showed once again the effects of surprise actions carried by "freelancers". Then, an article that elaborates on the clumsy and inefficient US forces' performance during the sniper's manhunt. And in response to the attacks of the hostage siege, Putin plans to give the Army more power. Privacy Issues A Canadian database of personal information on air travelers, considered as illegal, will be expanded. Suspicious Spanish e-commerce law (made effective this month) has caused many website owners to take their pages offline in protest. Also more info on Vietnamese's struggle for Internet freedom. Go to privacy concerns section, clicking here. Family Ads Thanks to a law on adoption granted by the UK government, thousands of women who had given away their babies for adoption will now be given the right to contact their children. On Clonation Bush administration give embryos in research new status. Extra News A court in San Francisco allowed the use of medical marijuana. Top ten geniuses A glance at the work of nowadays' ten most brilliant scientists, whose work could change our lives in a not so distant future. US 0, Asia 1 And Asia unveils a new high-speed connection technology, VDSL, that threatens to daze many.