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19, 21.06.02
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Portugal: 10 mil milionários com mais de um milhão
http://tinyurl.com/f88
Number Of Millionaires In United States Grew In 2001
http://www.us.cgey.com/news/current_news.asp?ID=240
How the Great Fortunes Grow: The State Lends a Helping Hand
In 1981, the compensation of the highest-paid corporate executive in America was about $5 million; 20 years later, that magic number had reached $290 million. Between 1977 and 1994, for the bottom 60 percent, average income fell about 8 percent; for the top 1 percent, it rose 72 percent.
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5984
Why boardroom bad guys have now emerged en masse
http://www.msnbc.com/news/769794.asp
Opening A Trillion- Dollar Hole
Last year, along with a reduction in income tax rates, Congress approved a gradual phase-out of estate taxes, wiping them out for everyone by 2010. […] The estate tax was signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt, who was stunned by the vast fortunes being accumulated in the first decades of the industrial age.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54507-2002Jun14.html
Year-by-Year Analysis of the Bush Tax Cuts Shows Growing Tilt to the Very Rich
http://www.ctj.org/html/gwb0602.htm
Top Enron employees reaped $744 million in the year leading up to bankruptcy filing
http://boston.com/dailynews/169/nation/Top_Enron_employees_reaped_744:.shtml
CEO da Vodafone recebe bónus de 2,34 M€
... relativo ao exercício 2001/02, no qual a operadora registou um prejuízo recorde
http://www.de.iol.pt/?article=306&visual=1&id=
Vodafone and its £86bn bonfire of the vanities
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news_analysis/story.jsp?story=298951
Burn the Rich: A recent study suggests that envy comes naturally.
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb061902.shtml
Pobres nos Países Menos Desenvolvidos Duplicaram em Trinta Anos
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/06/19/Economia/E09.html
Waiting for Mr Right: Rising Inequality and Declining Marriage Rates
Women search longer for their first or second husband in cities with higher male wage inequality.
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=3388
[Causa desta loucura toda?] Following Stock Market Linked to Poor Mental Health
http://tinyurl.com/f8f
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Going like the clappers may be a classical etiquette gaffe
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/11/1022982845810.html
Out of the mouths of babes? [Readers, accuracy & authors]
http://www.newsobserver.com/zane/story/1448988p-1480666c.html
Women Behind the Camera: Where?
http://www.wired.com/news/women/0,1540,53209,00.html
How to Produce an Indie Hit: Use Patience and Nurturing
http://tinyurl.com/f8a
Hollywood May Be Saying Auf Wiedersehen to Funds
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000042527jun17.story?null
The birds of Hollywood: An unnatural history
Movie producers spend countless millions to make the details convincing. So why can’t they figure out that blue jays are asleep at night and thrushes go south for the winter?
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/06/13/ornithology/print.html
Copyright rows ring down the centuries
Record companies warn that internet piracy could spell the end of the music business as we know it. In fact, we’ve heard these arguments before, from the likes of Dickens and Conan Doyle.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2002000/2002379.stm
Lawsuit challenges copy-protected CDs
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-936527.html?tag=fd_top
Sony: The conflicted conglomerate
http://news.com.com/2009-1040-936522.html?tag=fd_nc_1
Harry Potter released unprotected
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992404
Osbournes vs. Ted Nugent
http://accesshollywood.msn.com/tv/0530_nugentosbourne.asp
Internet piracy costs Roblimo $100 million!
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/06/13/0114249.shtml?tid=16
ECO-TERRORES
[Humor negro:] Polícia na Sede do Bloco de Esquerda por Causa de Sevilha
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/06/19/Nacional/P02.html
[Secção “hipocrisia com H”] Deal gave Europe’s troops immunity
Despite intense European opposition to American efforts to limit the scope of an international criminal court, Britain, France, Germany and other European governments obtained written assurances last year that their own nationals serving in a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan would be immune from arrest or surrender to any international tribunal.
http://tinyurl.com/fm7
The dragnet comes up empty
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, law enforcement agents detained more than 1,000 people. […] None have been implicated in terrorism.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/19/detain/index_np.html?x
The I-Said-So Test
Bush is claiming […] the right to detain without trial American citizens forever
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14477-2002Jun19.html
A Changed President - or a New Repression?
http://www.fair.org/activism/bush-post-ohio.html
Bad facts in criticism of Bush OSU speech
http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_06_16_archive.html#85179250
A história na primeira pessoa
http://www.panix.com/~jdev/osu-protest.html
Turn Your Back On Bush
http://www.turnyourbackonbush.com
We won’t deny our consciences
Prominent Americans have issued this statement on the war on terror
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,737060,00.html
“US had role in Taleban prisoner deaths”
US soldiers took part in the torture of Taleban prisoners and may have had a role in the “disappearance” of around 3,000 men in Mazar-i-Sharif
http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=648372002
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=22&art_id=qw1023894901416B265
Pentagon Denies Afghan Torture Claims
http://www.military.com/NewsContent?ESRC=navy.nl&file=FL_torture_061402
The War From al Qaeda’s Standpoint
http://www.stratfor.com/fib/topStory_view.php?ID=204880
Messages intercepted by U.S. on Sept. 10 revealed
… were not translated and analyzed until Sept. 12
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/19/911.warning/index.html
September 11, Terror War, and the New Barbarism
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/sept11kell.htm
Economic Impact of the September 11
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/post911wtcecon.pdf
New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers
http://www.journale.com/stories/magnum911/index.html
O que estava Bush a fazer no 11 de Setembro?
http://www.newworldtimes.com/scsb.bush.mov
Dark heart of the American dream
It’s the most polluted state in the planet’s most powerful country. How big oil got in bed with big politics and the price paid by the little people [in Bush’s backyard]
http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,738196,00.html
Groups returning donations to woman [with dementia]
Her family wants the organizations to change how they solicit for funds. […] The more she gave, the more the groups returned for more.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/3487543.htm
Every dial you take: The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no.
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/18/wiretap/print.html
Official site to advise on state snooping
The UK Government has set up a website to advise other organisations on the best way to snoop on citizens.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2049000/2049593.stm
http://www.surveillancecommissioners.org
The risk of masquerade arising from the storage of biometrics
http://chris.fornax.net/biometrics.html
Public access to EU documents not complete
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=6571
Commission attacks Danish whistle-blower civil servant
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=6647
Domestic Threat: Can Europe Survive German Nationalism?
http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020624&s=judis062402
VITAMEDIAS
NTV: televisão sem censura...
http://phalanx.clans.vizzavi.pt/ntv.php3
[Secção “Será possível?”: “hacktivism” é ciberterrorismo, Taiwan é Tailândia...] “Hackers” islâmicos unem forças
http://tinyurl.com/fmd
Pro-Islamic hackers join forces
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2052000/2052320.stm
John Dean e-book fails to unmask Deep Throat’s identity
Dean and Salon.com editors promised in April to unmask the identity
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3486944.htm
The Deepest Throat
So who, for the moment, is suspect #1? Sit down; it’s Pat Buchanan
http://reason.com/links/links061802.shtml
Richard Nixon’s Last Secret
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/nixon_pr.html
I accuse the media in the United States of treason - by Dennis Pluchinsky, senior intelligence analyst in the U.S. Department of State
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54650-2002Jun14.html
Traumatic Week For “Providence Journal”
http://tinyurl.com/f8b
Canada: un journaliste viré pour avoir critiqué le Premier ministre [par la famille propriétaire du groupe... et amie notoire dudit Premier ministre]
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=36498
Newsweek scores World Cup own goal [possibly the biggest gaffe in its history]
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,740189,00.html
Sex sidetracks: TV programme content may affect viewers’ memory for adverts.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020603/020603-23.html
Tories launch attack on BBC’s “TV tax”
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,740547,00.html
What is a News Aggregator?
http://radio.userland.com/whatIsANewsAggregator
Personal KM and Radio [para começar um blog…]
http://www.llrx.com/extras/shorttakes5.htm
http://www.rklau.com/tins/about.html
Table of Blog Elements
http://www.fairvue.com/?feature=elements3
Noteworthy: A Current Awareness Weblog for the information community
http://www.nfais.org/noteworthy.asp
StoryTelling Online: Just few of the many fine things you can do on the Web that you can’t do with paper, radio and TV
http://www.inserttexthere.com/storytelling.htm
The Future of Newspapers
http://www.inserttexthere.com/future_files/frame.htm
Interactive News on the Tube
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/future/index.php
The Future of Interactive Television
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?catid=14&articleid=579&homepage=yes
TECNO-HOUSE
Tarifas de ADSL de España y Portugal son las más caras de la UE
http://tinyurl.com/f8c
The end of the revolution
“Most likely ... the Internet’s role as a site of radical business and technology innovation, and its status as a revolutionary force that disrupts existing social and regulatory regimes, is coming to an end”.
http://salon.com/tech/books/2002/06/14/root/print.html
U.N. Says Digital Divide Is Growing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9485-2002Jun19.html
2002 Webby Awards Winner Speeches [5 words maximum]
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/press/speeches.html
The Five Deadly Sins of Unused Software
Companies spend too much money on software to see it turn into “shelfware”.
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/060102/sins.html
Why Software Is So Bad
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/mann0702.asp?p=0
Linux & Film Animation
Linux is gaining [market] at the expense of proprietary versions of Unix
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/technology/18LINU.html
SELinux and patents [SELinux is a distribution produced by the U.S. National Security Agency.]
http://lwn.net/Articles/2376/
Open Source and the Network Society
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/pedersen.pdf
AlltheWeb Claims Largest Search Index
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61737-2002Jun17.html
Search Firms Argue Whether Bigger is Better
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,8957,00.html
Wireless Dreaming: Is 3G Dead?
http://tinyurl.com/f8d
Watch this airspace: Four disruptive wireless technologies
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1176136
The Wireless Arcade
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/kushner0702.asp
Console wars [video games are growing up]
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1189352
When the Dance Is the Game
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53277,00.html
New on the Cable Dial: Interactive Games
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/technology/17BUZZ.html
Philips Shrinks CD to 1.2 Inches
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102000,00.asp
Text messaging via television
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992431
What Supercomputers Can and Cannot Do - Yet
http://tinyurl.com/f8e
Cool Companies: Who Says Technology Has Lost Its Sex Appeal?
http://www.fortune.com/lists/cool/index.html
Foreseeing the future: The legacy of Vannevar Bush
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/print/002719.php
CONTAMINANTES
A journal takes on medical mistakes
http://tinyurl.com/fm0
The Wrong Patient
http://www.annals.org/issues/v136n11/full/200206040-00012.html
Erections Get Insurance; Why Not the Pill?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/birthcontrol020619.html
Fewer Antibiotics Are Prescribed to Children: 40 Percent Decline [in 1990s]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7717-2002Jun18.html
Drug Firms Among Big Donors at GOP Event
… two days after Republicans unveiled a prescription drug plan the industry is backing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7779-2002Jun18.html
Globalizing Clinical Research [or “the global commerce in human experimentation”]
http://www.thenation.com/docPrint.mhtml?i=20020701&s=shah
The Next Industrial Revolution
“It’s not that we have to regulate waste. What we have to do is eliminate the entire concept of waste”
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/sustainable/next_industrial_rev.html
Scientists conquer laser beam teleportation
http://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/06/item20020617070959_1.htm
Legal Circumvention: Since 1980 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patents on more than 20,000 genes or gene-related molecules.
http://tinyurl.com/flz
In a Snob-Free Zone
Is there a place where one is outside all snobbish concerns - neither wanting to get in anywhere, nor needing to keep anyone else out?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0206.epstein.html
Egomania? We Can Rebuild It
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/start.html?pg=2
Unidisciplined
Academia is not a joining of disciplines, but an escape from disciplines.
http://wwics.si.edu/outreach/wq/WQSELECT/MENAND.HTM
Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex - Bruce Sterling Interview
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/12707/1.html
Electronic Discovery: A How-to Guide for Litigators
http://www.law.com/special/supplement/e_discovery/
Study finds Web of deceit on mental tests
http://tinyurl.com/e18
Fast Food Franchises in Hospitals
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n22/ffull/jlt0612-3.html
The Netherlands fights in EU for its Coffee Shops
http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=6637
Number of U.S. Telecommuters Rising
The number of Americans working at home three or more days a week grew nearly 23 percent, from 3.4 million in 1990 to 4.2 million in 2000.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60194-2002Jun16.html
.DE!
Primeiro divórcio relacionado com o 11 de Setembro
http://www.mustangmods.com/publish/TheStang/funny/Divorce_Sept_11_Style.jpg
Space rock’s close approach
On 14 June, an asteroid made one of the closest ever recorded approaches to the Earth. […] The space object was only detected on 17 June.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2056000/2056403.stm
Request Permission to Link to NPR.org
http://www.npr.org/about/linking_form.html
Hotels’ soap freebies find a home with hobbyist
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/3444434.htm
[O verdadeiro “reality show”:] Televised use of drugs leads to father’s arrest
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/3199768p-4248247c.html
Ex-inmate sues over smoky cells
http://tinyurl.com/f8h
Players Combine Golf with Sex [Score? Getting arrested for prostitution]
http://tinyurl.com/f8i
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Snake handler has his brow bitten by a 7 kilogram, 3 meter long carpet snake
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020616/168/1pafn.html
A monkey sips from a bottle of soft drink
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020612/168/1okwk.html
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
Go!
http://www.koor.org/stuff/fun/movies/swf/go.swf
