Who wants to be frozen (or taped)? The New Scientist is offering the ultimate prize as a part of a promotion: to have your body cryogenically frozen and stored, until some future technology can bring the dead back to life. Plus, how do you feel about making footage videos to remember the dead? Sweet rented home And find out why so many Americans can't fulfill their dreams of having their own house in spite of the ups on the incomes. Read it next. A diet rich in garlic, shallots and onions may make risk of prostate cancer %50 lower. This week it was announced that hormone therapy could be also effective for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease, if not for its treatment. And just anticipating a pleasant event can reduce stress level and boost the immune system. Finally, a new test can detect VIH in such short a time as 20 minutes. Wanna touch? New unveiled technology could allow people to feel others over the Web. And honey, don't forget your defibrillator! An inventive devise that could save your life: a wearable defibrillator that sends tiny charges to the heart. Nicole Kidman reflects on the classical family-career juggling, and spills out which her marriage basis was, as well as how much she would give up. See it next. Go to "burned out celebrities" section.		November 10th, Sunday, 2002, ip nº32 More fuzz, new times? Compilation of world's latest events Here a bunch of articles related to different measures governments are carrying out, such as the press-censorship Russian government has been practicing (post hostage situation), the UK's highly controversial decision to open up the number of people eligible to go to Iraq's war, and the counter-ttack of Bush's administration (reinforced by the latest Republican triumph) of picking up where they left regarding the Patriot Act. The world's very latest successes (the imminent war against Iraq, Russia's own battle against terrorism, US elections, etc) seem to be fortifying the states' authority, so how are individuals going to take it? Are we facing new times in the statal power scale? If so, that's creepy. And read this piece that reveals what the true intentions of the Russian government may have been regading the Muscovite theatre siege. Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_32_2.html The captain of my own ship DNA as destiny Take a look at this study on the nearest possibility to have our DNA scanned for our own genetic-disease map, and even the possibility to know at what age we are likely to pass away. There's a negative side to it as well as a positive one, since predictions can go wrong and defectively influence people, and at the same time they could help treating or at least lessening future symptoms. Thus, it poses a dilemma between knowing and trying to affect consciously certain events in our lives, and letting us fall in the "blissful ignorance". Basically, a predicament applicable not only in this regard. To take control or not to, that's the question. Link: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/dna.html Past as a constant burden? Not quite Through the past darkly Finally an article on Polanski´s latest film, The Pianist, the true story of a Polish-Jewish composer who escaped from the Warsaw ghetto. However, it's Polanski's own life experiences what this article is about. More specifically, it's about his harsh life (kindly recounted by the author) and the possibility this film gave him to finally "confront" his past. That is where the main emphasis is put, which made me think, it seems we should always remit to our past in some way in order to continue with our lives. Of course the importance of the reference gets greater when the survival factor kicks in. The article's motto is that no matter when, it's never to late to deal with your past. But what if, for some, dealing with it is not constructive at all? Link: http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,824769,00.html Appeared in Us News.		Privacy Issues Orwellian-like posters are invading London's streets and freaking people out. Here more info on the Chinese internet censorship, and the dangerous prospects of the country closing off and getting absolute control of the net. Go to privacy concerns section, clicking here. Online marketers and even artists are visualizing a promising new business: promoting their wares on file-trading services. Web pirates have turn into customers, and industry officials have turned green. Joni Mitchell publicly denounced the music industry and validated other options like selling music via Internet. Family Ads A bill that gives unmarried and same-sex couples the right to adopt is on its final stages to become a law. On Clonation The U.S. is pushing the U.N. to ban all forms of human cloning. Extra News On the Medical use of Marijuana: Trials show cannabis spray could help MS patients, and, will San Francisco start growing cannabis? A much brighter sun aeons ago could help explain some Martian phenomena. And Mars is going to get closer than ever, to the joy of astronomers. Peek on the a very new trend (within the frenzy web dating phenomenon): personal ads. Some facts and numbers. Check it out!