Matrix's back For all of you waiting to know what happens after the self-awareness process undergone by the characters in the first part, and also more kick-ass action sequences and some of the most impressive FX as well, the time to see how deep the rabbit hole goes has come. Brace yourselves for it checking this Times Magazine special. US economic panorama Read more about the economic situation in the US, and the new parameters installed in the job market, where experience is not that important, and temping is considered a good option. A new report shows that mice eating only every other day - even if they gorge on those days they do eat - experience similar health benefits to those which are put on diets reduced in calories. Plus new research has revived the notion that a high-fiber diet may protect be a protection against colon cancer. And what about slowing down the brain in order to sharpen brain activity? On Clonation Scientists have taken a major leap in steam cell research, turning stem cells into egg cells, like those produced in the ovary. Read it next. Read on the increasing amount of dating service companies flooding the college campuses in order to allow people to meet friends and mates. And androgyny makes its way trough international fashion and national publicity campaigns. Neither boys nor girls, some proclaim the new thing is the "third sex".		May 8th, Thursday, 2003, ip nº39 A running wheel or an extensive tool? Whose life is it anyway? According to a recent study, work can make you ill: it can cause physical and emotional troubles from anxiety to depression, from insomnia to sedentary habits. Nothing we don't know already, but new data points out that people actually can't live without it, and the same people working extra hours are in fact the ones complaining for not having time for social activities and a personal life. The following article tries to issue this seemingly masochistic attitude, while at the same time referring the uncertain times we live in. So is work precisely in this context a kind of safety net? And why is it that people dedicates so much time to work when it feels there're many things left aside? Link: http://money.guardian.co.uk/work/workinglives/story/0,12886,946713,00.html Afterwards an article on the change in sex roles among young people, college students, due in part to the slack economy and the demystification of marriage. What's most astonishing is to read about young people with most of their lives ahead planning their futures in relation to job possibilities, income situations, or even family roles! This leads me to wonder: up to what extent should we ponder subsistence regarding life-choices? And, what do jobs mean to us nowadays (a means to achieve something else, an aim in itself)? Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_39_6.html As creative as it gets How Many Fathers are Best For a Child? Next check out this interesting article on the social discovery two anthropologists made while visiting the Barí Indians in Venezuela, when they learned biological fatherhood can be shared, accepted and carried out without major worries, which led them to distrust the western family model as the natural or ideal one to follow. The article offers some hints that could prove handy when validating other options regarding relationships, it introduces a new insight on fidelity, and also presents some tangible and historical evidence that there are in fact other ways of building a family. Read it next! Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/news/ipmail_39_8.html Dealing with the devil 'I was kind of a disturbed kid' Finally sneak a peek into Marilyn Manson's world, visiting diverse aspects of his persona, speaking very honestly of the way he perceives life, a sort of positive in a negative canvas- outlook which tells to live to the fullest because the show may finish any minute, and about his role as a performer of "dangerous art". The interesting thing is that Manson seems to be aware of his art limitations, knowing it couldn't make a qualitative change in people's lives, aiming therefore at disrespecting common standards and testing democracy. So why keeping on with the artist part then? Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,949439,00.html Appeared in CNN. .		Have Londoners gone mad? Oddly enough in spite of crime declining two out of five people coming from affluent classes would like to carry a gun, and people demand capital punishment and identity cards. Has paranoia and fear overcome all trace of reason? Political correctness at its worst expression And take a look at this article on the rampant censorship in US schools. On the demand for History: President Bush will seek to finance a program to improve Americans' understanding of history, called `We the People'. Check it out next. On people's participation: The BBC plans to launch a website designed to help Britons organize grassroots political campaigns as well as to engage people in today´s underestimated political process. And Chinese authorities are doing anything to keep nurses and voluntaries in their labors. Privacy Issues In order to fight crime, corporate and government investigators are suing forensics specialists to audit our e-trails. And a bill in the California state legislature would protect the anonymity of Internet users alerting them when someone's trying to find out their identities. Go to privacy concerns section, clicking here. Music News: The battle continues… The world's biggest record companies shot first financing the development of software programs that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of P2P users, but users came up with "PeerGuardian" .