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21, 05.07.02
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Dez Hospitais Públicos Atribuídos a Privados
http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/07/02/Sociedade/S01.html
Contrato de Gestão com Os Mello Gera Polémica
Resultados da experiência de gestão privada em causa
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/07/03/Sociedade/S05.html
Decreto-Lei que define o regime jurídico das parcerias em saúde com gestão e financiamento privados
http://shorl.com/barusydifrydry
U.S. for-profit hospitals show higher mortality rates than non-profits
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-05/uab-ufh052202.php
Death rates are 2% higher in for-profit hospitals
http://www.nupge.ca/news_my02/n28my02a.htm
A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing mortality rates of private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals
http://shorl.com/jedudelajedo
What price for-profit hospitals?
http://shorl.com/jarofruprasote
For-Profit Hospitals Costlier And Less Efficient
http://www.pnhp.org/Press/1997/hospress.HTML
The Case Against Private, For-Profit Hospitals [September 1998]
http://www.friendsofmedicare.ab.ca/briefs/0998full.htm
A tad of profit-making can benefit social goals, research finds
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/may29/profitmaking-529.html
Portugal cedes financial control to EU: Portugal is to face austerity measures imposed by Brussels under threat of punitive sanctions, making it the first country to lose control over tax and spending policy as a result of joining the euro.
http://shorl.com/batredudadryju
Euro policy faces a double challenge: Forecasts darken in Portugal and France
http://shorl.com/dikefraprymebry
Europe may act on Portuguese Finances
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/30/12222/1285
CULTURAS IN VITRO
Egoyan versus Cronenberg: Is one really darker and more difficult than the other?
http://shorl.com/jemasohotafy
Free music downloading from the Net - An Alternative View
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
Music labels go after song-swappers
Recording companies plan lawsuits against individuals
http://www.msnbc.com/news/775684.asp
Grudgingly, Music Labels Sell Their Songs Online
http://shorl.com/hynybynokapru
Judge Finds Warner and Universal Fixed Prices of Three Tenors Recordings
http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=17499
What a Drag It Is Getting’ Old: Mick Jagger, knighthood, and the death of rock’n’roll.
http://reason.com/hod/ng061402.shtml
Musica & America: A Special Issue
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020708/misc/8opener.htm
Sound + Vision: He’s a techie who thinks conceptually, a designer who makes art, a humble collaborator with ideas of his own. But what, exactly, does multimedia maestro Ben Rubin do?
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0702/rub/index.html
Tate Gallery buys canned crap
[Manzoni …] said he canned his own excrement and sold it for the price of gold at the same weight as a statement on the art market. In fact, the Tate paid about $1,700 per gram for the feces, more than a hundred times the going rate for gold.
http://cbc.ca/artsCanada/stories/canned_crap020702
The Most Beautiful Office Building in the World
http://shorl.com/dakopriveprydru
ECO-TERRORES
Forças Policiais Não Trocam Informações
A necessidade de criação de uma base de dados comum às diversas forças policiais foi [apontada...] por vários elementos a elas ligados.
http://shorl.com/gijydrydriprobu
“En el futuro podremos conoceros a todos”, augura un asesor de Bush: Las fuerzas de la ley tienen cada vez mejores herramientas para la vigilancia electrónica y “el cuerpo social deberá adaptarse”.
http://shorl.com/jabopranybropa
Feds Deny Asking ISPs to Watch E-mails… but the federal government may not be far from forcing Internet service providers to keep copies of all e-mail exchanges in the interest of homeland security.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56443,00.html
Unionized They Can’t Stand: [Bush] dissolved a handful of existing unions that represented about 500 Justice Department employees around the nation. “They are using homeland security as an excuse to eliminate the rights of employees”.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1024078914123
Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud: A Consultation Paper
[BI em Portugal:] Voluntary though widely held belief that they are compulsory. Must carry proof of identity in public place.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/entitlement_cards.pdf
ID cards: arguments for and against
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,343-345482,00.html
ID cards: the overseas experience
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,343-345477,00.html
Report says CCTV is overrated
Between 1996 and 1998, three-quarters of the Home Office crime prevention budget was spent on CCTV, it said. But […] the overall reduction in crime was 5%, compared with a figure of 20% from a Home Office review of street lighting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450705,00.html
Va. Police To Test Face Software [in the beach…]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1855243,00.html
How to Disappear
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/start.html?pg=14
Camera/Shy will be released on July 13th: A browser-based steganography application from Hacktivismo, developed for democracy activists operating from behind national firewalls, allows trade in banned content across the Internet.
http://shorl.com/damysohagrudri
The Eagle Has Crash Landed: Pax Americana is over.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_julyaug_2002/wallerstein.html
America’s role in the world: Bush’s plan for the Middle East was a let-down. It did not advance the cause of peace, and may have set it back…
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=1200661
Equal Pay for Equal Death: Does the 9/11 fund think bankers matter more than electricians?
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2067575
350 revenge crimes after September 11… against people of Middle Eastern origin or appearance in retaliation for the September 11 attacks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,744142,00.html
Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309084814/html/
Fourth Generation Warfare: Roughly speaking, […] includes all forms of conflict where the other side refuses to stand up and fight fair.
http://www.d-n-i.net/second_level/fourth_generation_warfare.htm
Understanding USA
http://www.understandingusa.com
Know Your Place! Shut Your Face!
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
List of White House “enemies” [Facts on File, “Watergate and the White House”]
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~polisci/calvert/PolSci3103/watergate/enemy.htm
Idiot Time [É sobre concentração da riqueza mas...]
As Lord Bryce noted in 1888 […], the American way of choosing presidents rarely produces politicians of quality.
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020708&s=wolfe070802
The Power of the Super-Rich [“Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich” by Kevin Phillips]
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15605
Worldcon: The Fall of a Telecom Titan: A survey showed that 82% of CEOS admit to cheating at golf. The same percentage hate others who do the same. “We’re in a period of corporate Watergate, and Nixons are popping up all over”.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,267789,00.html
Supreme Court Rules Earnings Should Be Protected As “Art”
… as they “create something from nothing”
http://www.satirewire.com/news/june02/worldcom.shtml
Everyone Is Outraged: Bush and Pitt say they are outraged about WorldCom. […] Bush “has more familiarity with troubled energy companies and accounting irregularities than probably any previous chief executive”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/opinion/02KRUG.html
Bush Violated Security Laws Four Times, SEC Report Says
http://www.public-i.org/story_01_100400.htm
Bush’s Insider Connections Preceded Huge Profit On Stock Deal
http://www.public-i.org/story_01_040400.htm
The Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources
http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm
Supermarket Cards: The Pricing Issues
http://www.nocards.org/savings/index.shtml
VITAMEDIAS
Portuguese Version of Pravda.ru Causes Great Interest [diz o Pravda…]
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/06/27/31321.html
Treating Viewers as Criminals: Networks say watching TV without the ads is theft. Will blipverts be next? […] The networks do not and never have had contracts with consumers, compensating us for the labor we perform in watching commercials. […] I don't know about you but I want to renegotiate my contract!
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/wo_jenkins070302.asp
A Word From Our Sponsor? He’s Here Now: Viewers are not told the [Dockers] appearances are part of advertising arrangements.
http://shorl.com/hifreprekurinu
Falun Gong’s on TV [“Hacking” de um canal de televisão!!…]
Millions of Chinese television viewers got a shock this week when Falun Gong propaganda was beamed into their living rooms as members of the banned sect hijacked one of China’s main television satellites.
http://shorl.com/hofagygagiru
China suspends BBC World transmission
…after objecting to an item about the banned Falun Gong movement.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,749454,00.html
Online News Consumption Is Flat: Bad News For Newspapers, Web Sites
http://shorl.com/dinytratukadry
Newspapers Produce 7 Of Top 20 News Sites [down from eight during the previous month]
http://shorl.com/dugrufubisteru
Online ads, e-mail don’t click: Viewers just aren’t responding to online marketing
http://www.msnbc.com/news/774972.asp
Los sitios de periódicos y la rentabilidad
En Norteamérica, el 38% de los sitios de periódicos son rentables (un 17% en el mundial) y el 26% llegaron al equilibrio (un 25% en todo el mundo)
http://shorl.com/humostostatradry
The European Media Landscape: Facts and Figures (The wider context for media innovation)
http://www.mudia.org/results/FF-Mudia-final.pdf
Net radio raises a pirate flag: Inspired by Britain’s iconoclastic history of pirate radio broadcasting, Iain McLeod wants to save Internet radio. [He’s] the author of Streamer, a new software program designed to let people create online radio stations that are difficult for the authorities to trace.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941392.html?tag=fd_lede
Tale of the shadow revealed on Web [fotos e desmentidos…]
“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place”
http://shorl.com/fymygyrotafra
A Tale of Two Books: There are two fast-selling books in the marketplace that are remarkable in their repudiation of the general feeling, often reinforced by the media, that George Bush enjoys enormous popularity and stands invincible in the wake of 9/11. […] But you wouldn’t know it from media appearances, book reviews and bookstore readings.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13476
Politicians fear power of VJs
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/News.View.aspx?ContentID=1066
Le docu dopé par le 11 septembre: Pour le documentaire aussi, il y aurait donc un avant et un après l'attentat. Une mutation que certains voient déjà comme une poussée inédite du documentaire. Et pas seulement aux Etats-Unis.
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=39493
After September 11th: TV News and Transnational Audiences Conference
http://www.afterseptember11.tv
TECNO-HOUSE
Software bugs cost the U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion per year
http://idg.net/ic_879970_1794_9-10000.html
Broken trust: The real question is, for whom does Palladium make computing safer? It will surely make the digital world safer for Microsoft and Disney. But who will defend us from Bill Gates?
http://www.tweney.com/2002/0628trust.html
Palladium tech up for discussion, says MS security chief
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26037.html
Games designer to sue Microsoft
It was nervous about the popularity of the futuristic Project Entropia, a direct competitor to Microsoft’s Asheron’s Call game.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133161
Happy Hacking [Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software]
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0226/dibbell.php
Moby gets his own back on hate emailers
The star had to change his personal email address after […] he began receiving hate email. Now everyone who emails his old address receives a message telling then they’ve been automatically enrolled in his fan club.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_617739.html?menu=
How One Spam Leads to Another
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53617,00.html
In the war on spam, victory is nowhere in sight
http://shorl.com/fastefigyfure
How to keep junk e-mail out of your in-box
http://www.iht.com/articles/63066.html
No Subscription for Spam Relief
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,51517,00.html
The Spamdemic Map
http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/index.html
Defamed on Web? Just One Year to Sue
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/technology/04PUBL.html
Cyberlaw: Cybersmart or cybersilly?
Is there really a cyberspace full of “cybercitizens” who need only be accountable to their own “cyberlaws”? A loose-knit group of law professors is bucking one of the big fads in the legal field by calling that whole idea “cybersilly.”
http://www.msnbc.com/news/774871.asp
Top of the Heap: It started as a joke, but it became an obsession. I wanted to be the top-ranked David Gallagher on Google, and I wasn't going to let some 16-year-old TV star stand in my way.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,41488,FF.html
Star of “I Kiss You” Site Moves From Farce to Folklore
Mahir Cagri, who lives in Izmir, Turkey, has for the past two and a half years made a living as a full-time, low-budget Internet celebrity, willing to fly anywhere in the world to hang out with anyone who will cover his expenses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/technology/circuits/04MAHI.html
Chalk symbols expose London’s wireless points
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133055
Warchalking: Collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking
http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/
New Chips Can Keep a Tight Rein on Consumers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/business/04SCEN.html
The End of the Road for Bar Codes
Chip-embedded radio tags could revolutionize retailing
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_27/b3790093.htm
Babbage’s Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System
http://cci.wmin.ac.uk/schaffer/schaffer01.html
Project Cryo [um novo tipo de “rato”…]
http://metku.net/cryo/
[Outras modificações: http://metku.net]
CONTAMINANTES
A Doação: Nos últimos cinco anos, 16 pessoas [oriundas de nove países diferentes] doaram todos os seus órgãos na Andaluzia. [...] “Praticamente todos os emigrantes, procedam do país que procedam, doam os seus órgãos sem problemas de maior”.
http://jornal.publico.pt/2002/07/03/EspacoPublico/O04.html
Órganos sin papeles: Y también ha habido negativas entre los familiares de emigrantes fallecidos. Hasta 15 tenía contabilizadas el Servicio Andaluz de Salud hace menos de un mes.
http://shorl.com/hopriryjirede
Mitos [e paixões…]
http://dn.sapo.pt/cronica/mostra_cronica.asp?codCronica=2325&codEdicao=320
Education being compromised by economic fallacy
http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=1397&1397_1=5508
Education policy needs rethink, claims book
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/education/story/0,9853,724236,00.html
The education shibboleth: Extra years of schooling and wider access to university are everywhere supposed to be good for growth. Think again
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1165373
The Effects of Education on Political Opinions: An International Study
Research has found that education is associated with more liberal opinions on a number of issues, but there is uncertainty about the scope and interpretation of these findings.
http://www3.oup.co.uk/intpor/hdb/Volume_14/Issue_02/140141.sgm.abs.html
The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc.: Colombian cartels have spent billions of dollars to build one of the world's most sophisticated IT infrastructures. It's helping them smuggle more dope than ever before.
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,41206,00.html
You Snooze You Win, Learning Study Reveals: New research indicates that morning sleep and afternoon naps aid mental and physical learning.
http://shorl.com/hydrajupidiru
Narcissists brilliant workers, but terrible colleagues
http://shorl.com/hasunujodyly
Ethics of undisclosed payments to doctors recruiting patients in clinical trials
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7354/36
Soccer robots could beat humans by 2050
http://shorl.com/gysenavufrosto
Portugal Recebe Campeonato Mundial de Futebol Robótico [início dos treinos para o Mundial de 2050?...]
http://jornal.publico.pt/publico/2002/07/03/Ciencias/H05.html
More Than the Patch: New Ways to Take Medicine Via Skin
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/02/health/02SKIN.html?8hpib
World Report on Violence and Health [edição em Outubro]
http://www5.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/main.cfm?p=0000000117
Fireworks: Breathtaking... and Deadly
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13501
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
http://www.wired.com/news/gallery/0,2072,53598-4407~4406,00.html
.DE!
José María Aznar: “Corro 10 kilómetros en 5m 20s”
[Mentiroso, eu?] El récord mundial de los 10.000 metros [...] lo estableció el etíope Haile Gebreselassie en 26m 20s 75c.
http://shorl.com/bakimuhefruku
Man tried to rob a gun shop with a knife
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jun02/55103.asp
Mountaineer Saved by the Bell [by the phone…]
http://shorl.com/fibidejahymo
Beach-Sex Couple Ordered to Apologize [with newspaper advertisements]
http://shorl.com/fyfrifyparitu
Woman hit by subway train awarded US$10 million: Police say she walked into tunnel and lay down on track
http://shorl.com/hinapebemedy
Americans Make Trip on Boat of Corks [in Douro]
“People used to shout to me in the street, ‘Hey, cork guy!’” he recalled.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8782-2002Jul1.html
PHOTO-GRAFIAS
Inventors Devise “Telephone Tooth”
http://shorl.com/gygumevustigy
“Sweating mannequin” has been designed to help designers develop more comfortable military clothing, sportswear and even spacesuits.
http://shorl.com/hadijogibrule
Satellite image of an American flag made of flowers
http://shorl.com/fuhapresigribra
Mathematical Lego Sculptures
http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mathlego.htm
ZITE ZA ZEMANA (2 de 1 a 3 Zs):
They Rule [ideia brilhante]
http://www.theyrule.net
Haypenny: Concept Fiction for Concept People
http://www.haypenny.com
