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Um sarau é o bocado mais delicioso que temos, de telhado abaixo. Em um sarau todo o mundo tem que fazer. O diplomata ajusta, com um copo de champagne na mão, os mais intrincados negócios; todos murmuram, e não há quem deixe de ser murmurado. O velho lembra-se dos minuetes e das cantigas do seu tempo, e o moço goza todos os regalos da sua época; as moças são no sarau como as estrelas no céu; estão no seu elemento: aqui uma, cantando suave cavatina, eleva-se vaidosa nas asas dos aplausos, por entre os quais surde, às vezes, um bravíssimo inopinado, que solta de lá da sala do jogo o parceiro que acaba de ganhar sua partida no écarté, mesmo na ocasião em que a moça se espicha completamente, desafinando um sustenido; daí a pouco vão outras, pelos braços de seus pares, se deslizando pela sala e marchando em seu passeio, mais a compasso que qualquer de nossos batalhões da Guarda Nacional, ao mesmo tempo que conversam sempre sobre objetos inocentes que movem olhaduras e risadinhas apreciáveis. Outras criticam de uma gorducha vovó, que ensaca nos bolsos meia bandeja de doces que veio para o chá, e que ela leva aos pequenos que, diz, lhe ficaram em casa. Ali vê-se um ataviado dandy que dirige mil finezas a uma senhora idosa, tendo os olhos pregados na sinhá, que senta-se ao lado. Finalmente, no sarau não é essencial ter cabeça nem boca, porque, para alguns é regra, durante ele, pensar pelos pés e falar pelos olhos.
E o mais é que nós estamos num sarau. Inúmeros batéis conduziram da corte para a ilha de... senhoras e senhores, recomendáveis por caráter e qualidades; alegre, numerosa e escolhida sociedade enche a grande casa, que brilha e mostra em toda a parte borbulhar o prazer e o bom gosto.
Entre todas essas elegantes e agradáveis moças, que com aturado empenho se esforçam para ver qual delas vence em graças, encantos e donaires, certo sobrepuja a travessa Moreninha, princesa daquela festa.

(Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. A Moreninha, 1997.)

Examine a tira Níquel Náusea, do cartunista Fernando Gonsales.

Há tantos diálogos
Diálogo com o ser amado
o semelhante
o diferente
o indiferente
o oposto
o adversário
o surdo-mudo
o possesso
o irracional
o vegetal
o mineral
o inominado
Diálogo consigo mesmo
com a noite
os astros
os mortos
as ideias
o sonho
o passado
o mais que futuro
Escolhe teu diálogo
e
tua melhor palavra
ou
teu melhor silêncio
Mesmo no silêncio e com o silêncio
dialogamos.

(Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
Discurso de primavera e algumas sombras, 1977.)

Há tantos diálogos
Diálogo com o ser amado
o semelhante
o diferente
o indiferente
o oposto
o adversário
o surdo-mudo
o possesso
o irracional
o vegetal
o mineral
o inominado
Diálogo consigo mesmo
com a noite
os astros
os mortos
as ideias
o sonho
o passado
o mais que futuro
Escolhe teu diálogo
e
tua melhor palavra
ou
teu melhor silêncio
Mesmo no silêncio e com o silêncio
dialogamos.

(Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
Discurso de primavera e algumas sombras, 1977.)

Há tantos diálogos
Diálogo com o ser amado
o semelhante
o diferente
o indiferente
o oposto
o adversário
o surdo-mudo
o possesso
o irracional
o vegetal
o mineral
o inominado
Diálogo consigo mesmo
com a noite
os astros
os mortos
as ideias
o sonho
o passado
o mais que futuro
Escolhe teu diálogo
e
tua melhor palavra
ou
teu melhor silêncio
Mesmo no silêncio e com o silêncio
dialogamos.

(Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
Discurso de primavera e algumas sombras, 1977.)

O silêncio é a matéria significante por excelência, um continuum significante. O real da comunicação é o silêncio. E como o nosso objeto de reflexão é o discurso, chegamos a uma outra afirmação que sucede a essa: o silêncio é o real do discurso.

O homem está “condenado” a significar. Com ou sem palavras, diante do mundo, há uma injunção à “interpretação”: tudo tem de fazer sentido (qualquer que ele seja). O homem está irremediavelmente constituído pela sua relação com o simbólico.

Numa certa perspectiva, a dominante nos estudos dos signos, se produz uma sobreposição entre linguagem (verbal e não-verbal) e significação.

Disso decorreu um recobrimento dessas duas noções, resultando uma redução pela qual qualquer matéria significante fala, isto é, é remetida à linguagem (sobretudo verbal) para que lhe seja atribuído sentido. Nessa mesma direção, coloca-se o “império do verbal” em nossas formas sociais: traduz-se o silêncio em palavras. Vê-se assim o silêncio como linguagem e perde-se sua especificidade, enquanto matéria significan te distinta da linguagem.

(Eni Orlandi. As formas do silêncio, 1997.)

O silêncio é a matéria significante por excelência, um continuum significante. O real da comunicação é o silêncio. E como o nosso objeto de reflexão é o discurso, chegamos a uma outra afirmação que sucede a essa: o silêncio é o real do discurso.

O homem está “condenado” a significar. Com ou sem palavras, diante do mundo, há uma injunção à “interpretação”: tudo tem de fazer sentido (qualquer que ele seja). O homem está irremediavelmente constituído pela sua relação com o simbólico.

Numa certa perspectiva, a dominante nos estudos dos signos, se produz uma sobreposição entre linguagem (verbal e não-verbal) e significação.

Disso decorreu um recobrimento dessas duas noções, resultando uma redução pela qual qualquer matéria significante fala, isto é, é remetida à linguagem (sobretudo verbal) para que lhe seja atribuído sentido. Nessa mesma direção, coloca-se o “império do verbal” em nossas formas sociais: traduz-se o silêncio em palavras. Vê-se assim o silêncio como linguagem e perde-se sua especificidade, enquanto matéria significan te distinta da linguagem.

(Eni Orlandi. As formas do silêncio, 1997.)

O silêncio é a matéria significante por excelência, um continuum significante. O real da comunicação é o silêncio. E como o nosso objeto de reflexão é o discurso, chegamos a uma outra afirmação que sucede a essa: o silêncio é o real do discurso.

O homem está “condenado” a significar. Com ou sem palavras, diante do mundo, há uma injunção à “interpretação”: tudo tem de fazer sentido (qualquer que ele seja). O homem está irremediavelmente constituído pela sua relação com o simbólico.

Numa certa perspectiva, a dominante nos estudos dos signos, se produz uma sobreposição entre linguagem (verbal e não-verbal) e significação.

Disso decorreu um recobrimento dessas duas noções, resultando uma redução pela qual qualquer matéria significante fala, isto é, é remetida à linguagem (sobretudo verbal) para que lhe seja atribuído sentido. Nessa mesma direção, coloca-se o “império do verbal” em nossas formas sociais: traduz-se o silêncio em palavras. Vê-se assim o silêncio como linguagem e perde-se sua especificidade, enquanto matéria significan te distinta da linguagem.

(Eni Orlandi. As formas do silêncio, 1997.)

Essa poesia não logrou estabelecer-se em Portugal. De origem francesa, suas primeiras manifestações datam de 1866, quando um editor parisiense publica uma coletânea de poemas; em 1871 e 1876, saem outras duas coletâneas. Os poetas desse movimento literário pregam o princípio da Arte pela Arte, isto é, defendem uma arte que não sirva a nada e a ninguém, uma arte inútil, uma arte voltada para si própria. A Arte procuraria a Beleza e a Verdade que existiriam nos seres concretos, e não no sentimento do artista. Por isso, o belo se confundiria com a forma que o reveste, e não com algo que existiria dentro dele. Daí vem que esses poetas sejam formalistas e preguem o cuidado da forma artística como exigência preliminar. Para consegui-lo, defendem uma atitude de impassibilidade diante das coisas: não se emocionar jamais; antes, impessoalizar-se tanto quanto possível pela descrição dos objetos, via de regra inertes ou obedientes aos movimentos próprios da Natureza (o fluxo e refluxo das ondas do mar, o voo dos pássaros, etc.). Esteticistas, anseiam uma arte universalista.
Em Portugal, tentou-se introduzir esse movimento; certamente, impregnou alguns poetas, exerceu influência, mas não passou de prurido, que pouco alterou o ritmo literário do tempo. Na verdade, o modo fortuito como alguns se deixaram contaminar da nova moda poética revelava apenas veleidade francófila, em decorrência de razões de gosto pessoal ou de grupos restritos: faltoulhes intuito comum.

Leia os versos de Cesário Verde.

Duas igrejas, num saudoso largo,
Lançam a nódoa negra e fúnebre do clero:
Nelas esfumo um ermo inquisidor severo,
Assim que pela História eu me aventuro e alargo.

Do chuchu ao xixi

A concessionária Orla Rio subiu em 50%, de R$ 1 para R$ 1,50, o uso do banheiro público e de 60 para 65 anos o privilégio da gratuidade.
A idade foi elevada com base em lei estadual de 2002, um ano antes de o Estatuto do Idoso (2003) favorecer pessoas “com idade igual ou superior a 60 anos”.
Se o mal está feito, os economistas devem agora se preocupar com o choque do preço do uso do banheiro público na meta da inflação.
Em 1977, rimos quando a ditadura culpou o chuchu. Não seria o caso de rir, na democracia, do impacto do xixi no custo de vida?

(CartaCapital, 27.06.2012.)

Um sarau é o bocado mais delicioso que temos, de telhado abaixo. Em um sarau todo o mundo tem que fazer. O diplomata ajusta, com um copo de champagne na mão, os mais intrincados negócios; todos murmuram, e não há quem deixe de ser murmurado. O velho lembra-se dos minuetes e das cantigas do seu tempo, e o moço goza todos os regalos da sua época; as moças são no sarau como as estrelas no céu; estão no seu elemento: aqui uma, cantando suave cavatina, eleva-se vaidosa nas asas dos aplausos, por entre os quais surde, às vezes, um bravíssimo inopinado, que solta de lá da sala do jogo o parceiro que acaba de ganhar sua partida no écarté, mesmo na ocasião em que a moça se espicha completamente, desafinando um sustenido; daí a pouco vão outras, pelos braços de seus pares, se deslizando pela sala e marchando em seu passeio, mais a compasso que qualquer de nossos batalhões da Guarda Nacional, ao mesmo tempo que conversam sempre sobre objetos inocentes que movem olhaduras e risadinhas apreciáveis. Outras criticam de uma gorducha vovó, que ensaca nos bolsos meia bandeja de doces que veio para o chá, e que ela leva aos pequenos que, diz, lhe ficaram em casa. Ali vê-se um ataviado dandy que dirige mil finezas a uma senhora idosa, tendo os olhos pregados na sinhá, que senta-se ao lado. Finalmente, no sarau não é essencial ter cabeça nem boca, porque, para alguns é regra, durante ele, pensar pelos pés e falar pelos olhos.
E o mais é que nós estamos num sarau. Inúmeros batéis conduziram da corte para a ilha de... senhoras e senhores, recomendáveis por caráter e qualidades; alegre, numerosa e escolhida sociedade enche a grande casa, que brilha e mostra em toda a parte borbulhar o prazer e o bom gosto.
Entre todas essas elegantes e agradáveis moças, que com aturado empenho se esforçam para ver qual delas vence em graças, encantos e donaires, certo sobrepuja a travessa Moreninha, princesa daquela festa.

(Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. A Moreninha, 1997.)

Um sarau é o bocado mais delicioso que temos, de telhado abaixo. Em um sarau todo o mundo tem que fazer. O diplomata ajusta, com um copo de champagne na mão, os mais intrincados negócios; todos murmuram, e não há quem deixe de ser murmurado. O velho lembra-se dos minuetes e das cantigas do seu tempo, e o moço goza todos os regalos da sua época; as moças são no sarau como as estrelas no céu; estão no seu elemento: aqui uma, cantando suave cavatina, eleva-se vaidosa nas asas dos aplausos, por entre os quais surde, às vezes, um bravíssimo inopinado, que solta de lá da sala do jogo o parceiro que acaba de ganhar sua partida no écarté, mesmo na ocasião em que a moça se espicha completamente, desafinando um sustenido; daí a pouco vão outras, pelos braços de seus pares, se deslizando pela sala e marchando em seu passeio, mais a compasso que qualquer de nossos batalhões da Guarda Nacional, ao mesmo tempo que conversam sempre sobre objetos inocentes que movem olhaduras e risadinhas apreciáveis. Outras criticam de uma gorducha vovó, que ensaca nos bolsos meia bandeja de doces que veio para o chá, e que ela leva aos pequenos que, diz, lhe ficaram em casa. Ali vê-se um ataviado dandy que dirige mil finezas a uma senhora idosa, tendo os olhos pregados na sinhá, que senta-se ao lado. Finalmente, no sarau não é essencial ter cabeça nem boca, porque, para alguns é regra, durante ele, pensar pelos pés e falar pelos olhos.
E o mais é que nós estamos num sarau. Inúmeros batéis conduziram da corte para a ilha de... senhoras e senhores, recomendáveis por caráter e qualidades; alegre, numerosa e escolhida sociedade enche a grande casa, que brilha e mostra em toda a parte borbulhar o prazer e o bom gosto.
Entre todas essas elegantes e agradáveis moças, que com aturado empenho se esforçam para ver qual delas vence em graças, encantos e donaires, certo sobrepuja a travessa Moreninha, princesa daquela festa.

(Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. A Moreninha, 1997.)

Um sarau é o bocado mais delicioso que temos, de telhado abaixo. Em um sarau todo o mundo tem que fazer. O diplomata ajusta, com um copo de champagne na mão, os mais intrincados negócios; todos murmuram, e não há quem deixe de ser murmurado. O velho lembra-se dos minuetes e das cantigas do seu tempo, e o moço goza todos os regalos da sua época; as moças são no sarau como as estrelas no céu; estão no seu elemento: aqui uma, cantando suave cavatina, eleva-se vaidosa nas asas dos aplausos, por entre os quais surde, às vezes, um bravíssimo inopinado, que solta de lá da sala do jogo o parceiro que acaba de ganhar sua partida no écarté, mesmo na ocasião em que a moça se espicha completamente, desafinando um sustenido; daí a pouco vão outras, pelos braços de seus pares, se deslizando pela sala e marchando em seu passeio, mais a compasso que qualquer de nossos batalhões da Guarda Nacional, ao mesmo tempo que conversam sempre sobre objetos inocentes que movem olhaduras e risadinhas apreciáveis. Outras criticam de uma gorducha vovó, que ensaca nos bolsos meia bandeja de doces que veio para o chá, e que ela leva aos pequenos que, diz, lhe ficaram em casa. Ali vê-se um ataviado dandy que dirige mil finezas a uma senhora idosa, tendo os olhos pregados na sinhá, que senta-se ao lado. Finalmente, no sarau não é essencial ter cabeça nem boca, porque, para alguns é regra, durante ele, pensar pelos pés e falar pelos olhos.
E o mais é que nós estamos num sarau. Inúmeros batéis conduziram da corte para a ilha de... senhoras e senhores, recomendáveis por caráter e qualidades; alegre, numerosa e escolhida sociedade enche a grande casa, que brilha e mostra em toda a parte borbulhar o prazer e o bom gosto.
Entre todas essas elegantes e agradáveis moças, que com aturado empenho se esforçam para ver qual delas vence em graças, encantos e donaires, certo sobrepuja a travessa Moreninha, princesa daquela festa.

(Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. A Moreninha, 1997.)

O Hatha yoga pradipika, sagrada escritura do hatha yoga, escrita no século 15 da era atual, diz que, antes de nos aventurarmos na prática de austeridade e códigos morais, devemos nos preparar. Autocontrole e disciplina sem preparação adequada ______________ criar mais problemas mentais e de personalidade do que paz de espírito. A beleza dessa escritura é que ela resolve o grande problema que todo iniciante enfrenta: dominar a mente.
Devido _____________ abordagem corporal, o hatha yoga ficou conhecido – de modo equivocado – como uma categoria de ioga _______________ trabalha apenas as valências físicas (força, flexibilidade, resistência, equilíbrio e outras), quase como ginástica oriental. Isso não é verdade.

Leia o poema “Prece”, de Fernando Pessoa.

Senhor, a noite veio e a alma é vil.
Tanta foi a tormenta e a vontade!
Restam-nos hoje, no silêncio hostil,
O mar universal e a saudade.

Mas a chama, que a vida em nós criou,
Se ainda há vida ainda não é finda.
O frio morto em cinzas a ocultou:
A mão do vento pode erguê-la ainda.

Dá o sopro, a aragem – ou desgraça ou ânsia –,
Com que a chama do esforço se remoça,
E outra vez conquistaremos a Distância –
Do mar ou outra, mas que seja nossa!

______________ dois meses, a jornalista britânica Rowenna Davis, 25 anos, foi furtada. Só que não levaram sua carteira ou seu carro, mas sua identidade virtual. Um hacker invadiu e tomou conta de seu e-mail e – além de bisbilhotar suas mensagens e ter acesso a seus dados bancários – passou a escrever aos mais de 5 mil contatos de Rowenna dizendo que ela teria sido assaltada em Madri e pedindo ajuda em dinheiro.
Quando ela escreveu para seu endereço de e-mail pedindo ao hacker ao menos sua lista de contatos profissionais de volta, Rowenna teve como resposta a cobrança de R$ 1,4 mil. Ela se negou a pagar, a polícia não fez nada. A jornalista só retomou o controle do email porque um amigo conhecia um funcionário do provedor da conta, que desativou o processo de verificação de senha criado pelo invasor.

(Galileu, dezembro de 2011. Adaptado.)

Há cerca de dois meses, a jornalista britânica Rowenna Davis, 25 anos, foi furtada. Só que não levaram sua carteira ou seu carro, mas sua identidade virtual. Um hacker invadiu e tomou conta de seu e-mail e – além de bisbilhotar suas mensagens e ter acesso a seus dados bancários – passou a escrever aos mais de 5 mil contatos de Rowenna dizendo que ela teria sido assaltada em Madri e pedindo ajuda em dinheiro.
Quando ela escreveu para seu endereço de e-mail pedindo ao hacker ao menos sua lista de contatos profissionais de volta, Rowenna teve como resposta a cobrança de R$ 1,4 mil. Ela se negou a pagar, a polícia não fez nada. A jornalista só retomou o controle do email porque um amigo conhecia um funcionário do provedor da conta, que desativou o processo de verificação de senha criado pelo invasor.

(Galileu, dezembro de 2011. Adaptado.)

Há cerca de dois meses, a jornalista britânica Rowenna Davis, 25 anos, foi furtada. Só que não levaram sua carteira ou seu carro, mas sua identidade virtual. Um hacker invadiu e tomou conta de seu e-mail e – além de bisbilhotar suas mensagens e ter acesso a seus dados bancários – passou a escrever aos mais de 5 mil contatos de Rowenna dizendo que ela teria sido assaltada em Madri e pedindo ajuda em dinheiro.
Quando ela escreveu para seu endereço de e-mail pedindo ao hacker ao menos sua lista de contatos profissionais de volta, Rowenna teve como resposta a cobrança de R$ 1,4 mil. Ela se negou a pagar, a polícia não fez nada. A jornalista só retomou o controle do email porque um amigo conhecia um funcionário do provedor da conta, que desativou o processo de verificação de senha criado pelo invasor.

(Galileu, dezembro de 2011. Adaptado.)

Há cerca de dois meses, a jornalista britânica Rowenna Davis, 25 anos, foi furtada. Só que não levaram sua carteira ou seu carro, mas sua identidade virtual. Um hacker invadiu e tomou conta de seu e-mail e – além de bisbilhotar suas mensagens e ter acesso a seus dados bancários – passou a escrever aos mais de 5 mil contatos de Rowenna dizendo que ela teria sido assaltada em Madri e pedindo ajuda em dinheiro.
Quando ela escreveu para seu endereço de e-mail pedindo ao hacker ao menos sua lista de contatos profissionais de volta, Rowenna teve como resposta a cobrança de R$ 1,4 mil. Ela se negou a pagar, a polícia não fez nada. A jornalista só retomou o controle do email porque um amigo conhecia um funcionário do provedor da conta, que desativou o processo de verificação de senha criado pelo invasor.

(Galileu, dezembro de 2011. Adaptado.)

Há cerca de dois meses, a jornalista britânica Rowenna Davis, 25 anos, foi furtada. Só que não levaram sua carteira ou seu carro, mas sua identidade virtual. Um hacker invadiu e tomou conta de seu e-mail e – além de bisbilhotar suas mensagens e ter acesso a seus dados bancários – passou a escrever aos mais de 5 mil contatos de Rowenna dizendo que ela teria sido assaltada em Madri e pedindo ajuda em dinheiro.
Quando ela escreveu para seu endereço de e-mail pedindo ao hacker ao menos sua lista de contatos profissionais de volta, Rowenna teve como resposta a cobrança de R$ 1,4 mil. Ela se negou a pagar, a polícia não fez nada. A jornalista só retomou o controle do email porque um amigo conhecia um funcionário do provedor da conta, que desativou o processo de verificação de senha criado pelo invasor.

(Galileu, dezembro de 2011. Adaptado.)

Há cerca de dois meses, a jornalista britânica Rowenna Davis, 25 anos, foi furtada. Só que não levaram sua carteira ou seu carro, mas sua identidade virtual. Um hacker invadiu e tomou conta de seu e-mail e – além de bisbilhotar suas mensagens e ter acesso a seus dados bancários – passou a escrever aos mais de 5 mil contatos de Rowenna dizendo que ela teria sido assaltada em Madri e pedindo ajuda em dinheiro.
Quando ela escreveu para seu endereço de e-mail pedindo ao hacker ao menos sua lista de contatos profissionais de volta, Rowenna teve como resposta a cobrança de R$ 1,4 mil. Ela se negou a pagar, a polícia não fez nada. A jornalista só retomou o controle do email porque um amigo conhecia um funcionário do provedor da conta, que desativou o processo de verificação de senha criado pelo invasor.

(Galileu, dezembro de 2011. Adaptado.)

Apóstrofe à carne

Quando eu pego nas carnes do meu rosto,
Pressinto o fim da orgânica batalha:
– Olhos que o húmus necrófago estraçalha,
Diafragmas, decompondo-se, ao sol-posto.

E o Homem – negro e heteróclito composto,
Onde a alva flama psíquica trabalha,
Desagrega-se e deixa na mortalha
O tacto, a vista, o ouvido, o olfato e o gosto!

Carne, feixe de mônadas bastardas,
Conquanto em flâmeo fogo efêmero ardas,
A dardejar relampejantes brilhos,

Dói-me ver, muito embora a alma te acenda,
Em tua podridão a herança horrenda,
Que eu tenho de deixar para os meus filhos!

(Augusto dos Anjos. Obra completa, 1994.)

Apóstrofe à carne

Quando eu pego nas carnes do meu rosto,
Pressinto o fim da orgânica batalha:
– Olhos que o húmus necrófago estraçalha,
Diafragmas, decompondo-se, ao sol-posto.

E o Homem – negro e heteróclito composto,
Onde a alva flama psíquica trabalha,
Desagrega-se e deixa na mortalha
O tacto, a vista, o ouvido, o olfato e o gosto!

Carne, feixe de mônadas bastardas,
Conquanto em flâmeo fogo efêmero ardas,
A dardejar relampejantes brilhos,

Dói-me ver, muito embora a alma te acenda,
Em tua podridão a herança horrenda,
Que eu tenho de deixar para os meus filhos!

(Augusto dos Anjos. Obra completa, 1994.)

Life of a Nantucket Surgeon

By Tara Parker-Pope
July 27, 2012

In her new book, “Island Practice”, the New York Times reporter Pam Belluck tells the story of Dr. Timothy Lepore, a quirky 67-year-old physician who for the past 30 years has been the only surgeon working on the island of Nantucket. But Dr. Lepore is no ordinary surgeon. Life on an island, even one that has become a summer playground to the rich and famous, requires a certain amount of resourcefulness and flexibility. Over the years Dr. Lepore has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer. While his surgical skills have been used for minor repairs and lifesaving procedures, he often works as a general practitioner, treating everyday ailments. Distraught island residents also call on him for counseling and comfort, and he even steps into the role of veterinarian when needed.
I recently spoke with Ms. Belluck about the time she spent with Dr. Lepore. Here’s part of our conversation.

• I think of Nantucket as a posh summer tourist destination. Were you surprised to find such a quirky character there?
I thought of it as this rich summer haven, but there is this whole year-round population that is really interesting and diverse and has to scrabble for a living. Even the hardship was surprising. You think any place is accessible, but there are a lot of times where you cannot get on or off the island, and you can’t get what you need. Even though they have fast ferries and airplanes now, you’re still at the mercy of the elements, and that creates a lot of drama.

• What kinds of challenges has Dr. Lepore faced?
Part of it is the fact that as the only surgeon, you kind of need to do everything, and you may not know how to do something. There was a guy who came home and had forgotten to pick up potatoes, and his wife stabbed him in the heart. It’s the kind of stab wound that only 10 percent of patients make it to the hospital alive, and 1 percent will survive. Dr. Lepore had never seen anything like this before, but there was no time to get the guy off the island. So he had to reach in and get the heart started. There wasn’t the right equipment to sew him up, and they had only six units of blood, which is not that much. But he’s an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury. They found some black silk thread, and he managed to close this guy’s heart and get it beating again. The guy survived and became a marathon runner. There is a field hospital-type feeling to it. You’re not under fire, but there is making do with what you have and flying by the seat of your pants. Often the weather is bad, and he has never done it before, but he just has to do it.

• Does he make a good living? Does he take insurance?
He takes insurance, but he also takes people who can’t pay at all. He will even allow people to pay him in kind. One of the undercurrents of the book is that his hospital on Nantucket is now run by Partners Health Care, the big health care corporation that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have instituted some new systems, but he flouts many of them. He says, “Nobody is going to manage my time. Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” They can’t really complain because they need him.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

Life of a Nantucket Surgeon

By Tara Parker-Pope
July 27, 2012

In her new book, “Island Practice”, the New York Times reporter Pam Belluck tells the story of Dr. Timothy Lepore, a quirky 67-year-old physician who for the past 30 years has been the only surgeon working on the island of Nantucket. But Dr. Lepore is no ordinary surgeon. Life on an island, even one that has become a summer playground to the rich and famous, requires a certain amount of resourcefulness and flexibility. Over the years Dr. Lepore has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer. While his surgical skills have been used for minor repairs and lifesaving procedures, he often works as a general practitioner, treating everyday ailments. Distraught island residents also call on him for counseling and comfort, and he even steps into the role of veterinarian when needed.
I recently spoke with Ms. Belluck about the time she spent with Dr. Lepore. Here’s part of our conversation.

• I think of Nantucket as a posh summer tourist destination. Were you surprised to find such a quirky character there?
I thought of it as this rich summer haven, but there is this whole year-round population that is really interesting and diverse and has to scrabble for a living. Even the hardship was surprising. You think any place is accessible, but there are a lot of times where you cannot get on or off the island, and you can’t get what you need. Even though they have fast ferries and airplanes now, you’re still at the mercy of the elements, and that creates a lot of drama.

• What kinds of challenges has Dr. Lepore faced?
Part of it is the fact that as the only surgeon, you kind of need to do everything, and you may not know how to do something. There was a guy who came home and had forgotten to pick up potatoes, and his wife stabbed him in the heart. It’s the kind of stab wound that only 10 percent of patients make it to the hospital alive, and 1 percent will survive. Dr. Lepore had never seen anything like this before, but there was no time to get the guy off the island. So he had to reach in and get the heart started. There wasn’t the right equipment to sew him up, and they had only six units of blood, which is not that much. But he’s an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury. They found some black silk thread, and he managed to close this guy’s heart and get it beating again. The guy survived and became a marathon runner. There is a field hospital-type feeling to it. You’re not under fire, but there is making do with what you have and flying by the seat of your pants. Often the weather is bad, and he has never done it before, but he just has to do it.

• Does he make a good living? Does he take insurance?
He takes insurance, but he also takes people who can’t pay at all. He will even allow people to pay him in kind. One of the undercurrents of the book is that his hospital on Nantucket is now run by Partners Health Care, the big health care corporation that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have instituted some new systems, but he flouts many of them. He says, “Nobody is going to manage my time. Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” They can’t really complain because they need him.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

Life of a Nantucket Surgeon

By Tara Parker-Pope
July 27, 2012

In her new book, “Island Practice”, the New York Times reporter Pam Belluck tells the story of Dr. Timothy Lepore, a quirky 67-year-old physician who for the past 30 years has been the only surgeon working on the island of Nantucket. But Dr. Lepore is no ordinary surgeon. Life on an island, even one that has become a summer playground to the rich and famous, requires a certain amount of resourcefulness and flexibility. Over the years Dr. Lepore has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer. While his surgical skills have been used for minor repairs and lifesaving procedures, he often works as a general practitioner, treating everyday ailments. Distraught island residents also call on him for counseling and comfort, and he even steps into the role of veterinarian when needed.
I recently spoke with Ms. Belluck about the time she spent with Dr. Lepore. Here’s part of our conversation.

• I think of Nantucket as a posh summer tourist destination. Were you surprised to find such a quirky character there?
I thought of it as this rich summer haven, but there is this whole year-round population that is really interesting and diverse and has to scrabble for a living. Even the hardship was surprising. You think any place is accessible, but there are a lot of times where you cannot get on or off the island, and you can’t get what you need. Even though they have fast ferries and airplanes now, you’re still at the mercy of the elements, and that creates a lot of drama.

• What kinds of challenges has Dr. Lepore faced?
Part of it is the fact that as the only surgeon, you kind of need to do everything, and you may not know how to do something. There was a guy who came home and had forgotten to pick up potatoes, and his wife stabbed him in the heart. It’s the kind of stab wound that only 10 percent of patients make it to the hospital alive, and 1 percent will survive. Dr. Lepore had never seen anything like this before, but there was no time to get the guy off the island. So he had to reach in and get the heart started. There wasn’t the right equipment to sew him up, and they had only six units of blood, which is not that much. But he’s an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury. They found some black silk thread, and he managed to close this guy’s heart and get it beating again. The guy survived and became a marathon runner. There is a field hospital-type feeling to it. You’re not under fire, but there is making do with what you have and flying by the seat of your pants. Often the weather is bad, and he has never done it before, but he just has to do it.

• Does he make a good living? Does he take insurance?
He takes insurance, but he also takes people who can’t pay at all. He will even allow people to pay him in kind. One of the undercurrents of the book is that his hospital on Nantucket is now run by Partners Health Care, the big health care corporation that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have instituted some new systems, but he flouts many of them. He says, “Nobody is going to manage my time. Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” They can’t really complain because they need him.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

Life of a Nantucket Surgeon

By Tara Parker-Pope
July 27, 2012

In her new book, “Island Practice”, the New York Times reporter Pam Belluck tells the story of Dr. Timothy Lepore, a quirky 67-year-old physician who for the past 30 years has been the only surgeon working on the island of Nantucket. But Dr. Lepore is no ordinary surgeon. Life on an island, even one that has become a summer playground to the rich and famous, requires a certain amount of resourcefulness and flexibility. Over the years Dr. Lepore has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer. While his surgical skills have been used for minor repairs and lifesaving procedures, he often works as a general practitioner, treating everyday ailments. Distraught island residents also call on him for counseling and comfort, and he even steps into the role of veterinarian when needed.
I recently spoke with Ms. Belluck about the time she spent with Dr. Lepore. Here’s part of our conversation.

• I think of Nantucket as a posh summer tourist destination. Were you surprised to find such a quirky character there?
I thought of it as this rich summer haven, but there is this whole year-round population that is really interesting and diverse and has to scrabble for a living. Even the hardship was surprising. You think any place is accessible, but there are a lot of times where you cannot get on or off the island, and you can’t get what you need. Even though they have fast ferries and airplanes now, you’re still at the mercy of the elements, and that creates a lot of drama.

• What kinds of challenges has Dr. Lepore faced?
Part of it is the fact that as the only surgeon, you kind of need to do everything, and you may not know how to do something. There was a guy who came home and had forgotten to pick up potatoes, and his wife stabbed him in the heart. It’s the kind of stab wound that only 10 percent of patients make it to the hospital alive, and 1 percent will survive. Dr. Lepore had never seen anything like this before, but there was no time to get the guy off the island. So he had to reach in and get the heart started. There wasn’t the right equipment to sew him up, and they had only six units of blood, which is not that much. But he’s an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury. They found some black silk thread, and he managed to close this guy’s heart and get it beating again. The guy survived and became a marathon runner. There is a field hospital-type feeling to it. You’re not under fire, but there is making do with what you have and flying by the seat of your pants. Often the weather is bad, and he has never done it before, but he just has to do it.

• Does he make a good living? Does he take insurance?
He takes insurance, but he also takes people who can’t pay at all. He will even allow people to pay him in kind. One of the undercurrents of the book is that his hospital on Nantucket is now run by Partners Health Care, the big health care corporation that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have instituted some new systems, but he flouts many of them. He says, “Nobody is going to manage my time. Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” They can’t really complain because they need him.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

Life of a Nantucket Surgeon

By Tara Parker-Pope
July 27, 2012

In her new book, “Island Practice”, the New York Times reporter Pam Belluck tells the story of Dr. Timothy Lepore, a quirky 67-year-old physician who for the past 30 years has been the only surgeon working on the island of Nantucket. But Dr. Lepore is no ordinary surgeon. Life on an island, even one that has become a summer playground to the rich and famous, requires a certain amount of resourcefulness and flexibility. Over the years Dr. Lepore has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer. While his surgical skills have been used for minor repairs and lifesaving procedures, he often works as a general practitioner, treating everyday ailments. Distraught island residents also call on him for counseling and comfort, and he even steps into the role of veterinarian when needed.
I recently spoke with Ms. Belluck about the time she spent with Dr. Lepore. Here’s part of our conversation.

• I think of Nantucket as a posh summer tourist destination. Were you surprised to find such a quirky character there?
I thought of it as this rich summer haven, but there is this whole year-round population that is really interesting and diverse and has to scrabble for a living. Even the hardship was surprising. You think any place is accessible, but there are a lot of times where you cannot get on or off the island, and you can’t get what you need. Even though they have fast ferries and airplanes now, you’re still at the mercy of the elements, and that creates a lot of drama.

• What kinds of challenges has Dr. Lepore faced?
Part of it is the fact that as the only surgeon, you kind of need to do everything, and you may not know how to do something. There was a guy who came home and had forgotten to pick up potatoes, and his wife stabbed him in the heart. It’s the kind of stab wound that only 10 percent of patients make it to the hospital alive, and 1 percent will survive. Dr. Lepore had never seen anything like this before, but there was no time to get the guy off the island. So he had to reach in and get the heart started. There wasn’t the right equipment to sew him up, and they had only six units of blood, which is not that much. But he’s an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury. They found some black silk thread, and he managed to close this guy’s heart and get it beating again. The guy survived and became a marathon runner. There is a field hospital-type feeling to it. You’re not under fire, but there is making do with what you have and flying by the seat of your pants. Often the weather is bad, and he has never done it before, but he just has to do it.

• Does he make a good living? Does he take insurance?
He takes insurance, but he also takes people who can’t pay at all. He will even allow people to pay him in kind. One of the undercurrents of the book is that his hospital on Nantucket is now run by Partners Health Care, the big health care corporation that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have instituted some new systems, but he flouts many of them. He says, “Nobody is going to manage my time. Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” They can’t really complain because they need him.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

Life of a Nantucket Surgeon

By Tara Parker-Pope
July 27, 2012

In her new book, “Island Practice”, the New York Times reporter Pam Belluck tells the story of Dr. Timothy Lepore, a quirky 67-year-old physician who for the past 30 years has been the only surgeon working on the island of Nantucket. But Dr. Lepore is no ordinary surgeon. Life on an island, even one that has become a summer playground to the rich and famous, requires a certain amount of resourcefulness and flexibility. Over the years Dr. Lepore has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer. While his surgical skills have been used for minor repairs and lifesaving procedures, he often works as a general practitioner, treating everyday ailments. Distraught island residents also call on him for counseling and comfort, and he even steps into the role of veterinarian when needed.
I recently spoke with Ms. Belluck about the time she spent with Dr. Lepore. Here’s part of our conversation.

• I think of Nantucket as a posh summer tourist destination. Were you surprised to find such a quirky character there?
I thought of it as this rich summer haven, but there is this whole year-round population that is really interesting and diverse and has to scrabble for a living. Even the hardship was surprising. You think any place is accessible, but there are a lot of times where you cannot get on or off the island, and you can’t get what you need. Even though they have fast ferries and airplanes now, you’re still at the mercy of the elements, and that creates a lot of drama.

• What kinds of challenges has Dr. Lepore faced?
Part of it is the fact that as the only surgeon, you kind of need to do everything, and you may not know how to do something. There was a guy who came home and had forgotten to pick up potatoes, and his wife stabbed him in the heart. It’s the kind of stab wound that only 10 percent of patients make it to the hospital alive, and 1 percent will survive. Dr. Lepore had never seen anything like this before, but there was no time to get the guy off the island. So he had to reach in and get the heart started. There wasn’t the right equipment to sew him up, and they had only six units of blood, which is not that much. But he’s an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury. They found some black silk thread, and he managed to close this guy’s heart and get it beating again. The guy survived and became a marathon runner. There is a field hospital-type feeling to it. You’re not under fire, but there is making do with what you have and flying by the seat of your pants. Often the weather is bad, and he has never done it before, but he just has to do it.

• Does he make a good living? Does he take insurance?
He takes insurance, but he also takes people who can’t pay at all. He will even allow people to pay him in kind. One of the undercurrents of the book is that his hospital on Nantucket is now run by Partners Health Care, the big health care corporation that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have instituted some new systems, but he flouts many of them. He says, “Nobody is going to manage my time. Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” They can’t really complain because they need him.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

Life of a Nantucket Surgeon

By Tara Parker-Pope
July 27, 2012

In her new book, “Island Practice”, the New York Times reporter Pam Belluck tells the story of Dr. Timothy Lepore, a quirky 67-year-old physician who for the past 30 years has been the only surgeon working on the island of Nantucket. But Dr. Lepore is no ordinary surgeon. Life on an island, even one that has become a summer playground to the rich and famous, requires a certain amount of resourcefulness and flexibility. Over the years Dr. Lepore has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer. While his surgical skills have been used for minor repairs and lifesaving procedures, he often works as a general practitioner, treating everyday ailments. Distraught island residents also call on him for counseling and comfort, and he even steps into the role of veterinarian when needed.
I recently spoke with Ms. Belluck about the time she spent with Dr. Lepore. Here’s part of our conversation.

• I think of Nantucket as a posh summer tourist destination. Were you surprised to find such a quirky character there?
I thought of it as this rich summer haven, but there is this whole year-round population that is really interesting and diverse and has to scrabble for a living. Even the hardship was surprising. You think any place is accessible, but there are a lot of times where you cannot get on or off the island, and you can’t get what you need. Even though they have fast ferries and airplanes now, you’re still at the mercy of the elements, and that creates a lot of drama.

• What kinds of challenges has Dr. Lepore faced?
Part of it is the fact that as the only surgeon, you kind of need to do everything, and you may not know how to do something. There was a guy who came home and had forgotten to pick up potatoes, and his wife stabbed him in the heart. It’s the kind of stab wound that only 10 percent of patients make it to the hospital alive, and 1 percent will survive. Dr. Lepore had never seen anything like this before, but there was no time to get the guy off the island. So he had to reach in and get the heart started. There wasn’t the right equipment to sew him up, and they had only six units of blood, which is not that much. But he’s an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury. They found some black silk thread, and he managed to close this guy’s heart and get it beating again. The guy survived and became a marathon runner. There is a field hospital-type feeling to it. You’re not under fire, but there is making do with what you have and flying by the seat of your pants. Often the weather is bad, and he has never done it before, but he just has to do it.

• Does he make a good living? Does he take insurance?
He takes insurance, but he also takes people who can’t pay at all. He will even allow people to pay him in kind. One of the undercurrents of the book is that his hospital on Nantucket is now run by Partners Health Care, the big health care corporation that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have instituted some new systems, but he flouts many of them. He says, “Nobody is going to manage my time. Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” They can’t really complain because they need him.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

Life of a Nantucket Surgeon

By Tara Parker-Pope
July 27, 2012

In her new book, “Island Practice”, the New York Times reporter Pam Belluck tells the story of Dr. Timothy Lepore, a quirky 67-year-old physician who for the past 30 years has been the only surgeon working on the island of Nantucket. But Dr. Lepore is no ordinary surgeon. Life on an island, even one that has become a summer playground to the rich and famous, requires a certain amount of resourcefulness and flexibility. Over the years Dr. Lepore has taken it upon himself to deliver whatever type of medical care his island inhabitants need, often challenging conventional notions of medicine and redefining what it means to be a healer. While his surgical skills have been used for minor repairs and lifesaving procedures, he often works as a general practitioner, treating everyday ailments. Distraught island residents also call on him for counseling and comfort, and he even steps into the role of veterinarian when needed.
I recently spoke with Ms. Belluck about the time she spent with Dr. Lepore. Here’s part of our conversation.

• I think of Nantucket as a posh summer tourist destination. Were you surprised to find such a quirky character there?
I thought of it as this rich summer haven, but there is this whole year-round population that is really interesting and diverse and has to scrabble for a living. Even the hardship was surprising. You think any place is accessible, but there are a lot of times where you cannot get on or off the island, and you can’t get what you need. Even though they have fast ferries and airplanes now, you’re still at the mercy of the elements, and that creates a lot of drama.

• What kinds of challenges has Dr. Lepore faced?
Part of it is the fact that as the only surgeon, you kind of need to do everything, and you may not know how to do something. There was a guy who came home and had forgotten to pick up potatoes, and his wife stabbed him in the heart. It’s the kind of stab wound that only 10 percent of patients make it to the hospital alive, and 1 percent will survive. Dr. Lepore had never seen anything like this before, but there was no time to get the guy off the island. So he had to reach in and get the heart started. There wasn’t the right equipment to sew him up, and they had only six units of blood, which is not that much. But he’s an encyclopedia of arcane facts, and he remembered that in the 1800s they used black silk thread for this kind of injury. They found some black silk thread, and he managed to close this guy’s heart and get it beating again. The guy survived and became a marathon runner. There is a field hospital-type feeling to it. You’re not under fire, but there is making do with what you have and flying by the seat of your pants. Often the weather is bad, and he has never done it before, but he just has to do it.

• Does he make a good living? Does he take insurance?
He takes insurance, but he also takes people who can’t pay at all. He will even allow people to pay him in kind. One of the undercurrents of the book is that his hospital on Nantucket is now run by Partners Health Care, the big health care corporation that runs Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have instituted some new systems, but he flouts many of them. He says, “Nobody is going to manage my time. Nobody is going to tell me what to do.” They can’t really complain because they need him.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

Work after eight months of pregnancy is as
harmful as smoking, study finds

Conal Urquhart and agencies
July 28, 2012
Working after eight months of pregnancy is as harmful for babies as smoking, according to a new study. Women who worked after they were eight months pregnant had babies on average around 230g lighter than those who stopped work between six and eight months.
The University of Essex research – which drew on data from three major studies, two in the UK and one in the US – found the effect of continuing to work during the late stages of pregnancy was equal to that of smoking while pregnant. Babies whose mothers worked or smoked throughout pregnancy grew more slowly in the womb.
Past research has shown babies with low birth weights are at higher risk of poor health and slow development, and may suffer from a variety of problems later in life. Stopping work early in pregnancy was particularly beneficial for women with lower levels of education, the study found – suggesting that the effect of working during pregnancy was possibly more marked for those doing physically demanding work. The birth weight of babies born to mothers under the age of 24 was not affected by them continuing to work, but in older mothers the effect was more significant.
The researchers identified 1,339 children whose mothers were part of the British Household Panel Survey, which was conducted between 1991 and 2005, and for whom data was available. A further sample of 17,483 women who gave birth in 2000 or 2001 and who took part in the Millennium Cohort Study was also examined and showed similar results, along with 12,166 from the National Survey of Family Growth, relating to births in the US between the early 1970s and 1995.
One of the authors of the study, Prof. Marco Francesconi, said the government should consider incentives employers to offer more flexible maternity leave to 42 women who might need a break before, 43 after, their babies were born. He said: “We know low birth weight is a predictor of many things that happen later, including lower chances of completing school successfully, lower wages and higher mortality. We need to think seriously about parental leave, because – as this study suggests – the possible benefits of taking leave flexibly before the birth 44 quite high.”
The study also suggests British women may be working for 45 now during pregnancy. While 16% of mothers questioned by the British Household Panel Study, which went as far back as 1991, worked up to one month before the birth, the figure was 30% in the Millennium Cohort Study, whose subjects were born in 2000 and 2001

(www.guardian.co.uk)

Work after eight months of pregnancy is as
harmful as smoking, study finds

Conal Urquhart and agencies
July 28, 2012
Working after eight months of pregnancy is as harmful for babies as smoking, according to a new study. Women who worked after they were eight months pregnant had babies on average around 230g lighter than those who stopped work between six and eight months.
The University of Essex research – which drew on data from three major studies, two in the UK and one in the US – found the effect of continuing to work during the late stages of pregnancy was equal to that of smoking while pregnant. Babies whose mothers worked or smoked throughout pregnancy grew more slowly in the womb.
Past research has shown babies with low birth weights are at higher risk of poor health and slow development, and may suffer from a variety of problems later in life. Stopping work early in pregnancy was particularly beneficial for women with lower levels of education, the study found – suggesting that the effect of working during pregnancy was possibly more marked for those doing physically demanding work. The birth weight of babies born to mothers under the age of 24 was not affected by them continuing to work, but in older mothers the effect was more significant.
The researchers identified 1,339 children whose mothers were part of the British Household Panel Survey, which was conducted between 1991 and 2005, and for whom data was available. A further sample of 17,483 women who gave birth in 2000 or 2001 and who took part in the Millennium Cohort Study was also examined and showed similar results, along with 12,166 from the National Survey of Family Growth, relating to births in the US between the early 1970s and 1995.
One of the authors of the study, Prof. Marco Francesconi, said the government should consider incentives employers to offer more flexible maternity leave to 42 women who might need a break before, 43 after, their babies were born. He said: “We know low birth weight is a predictor of many things that happen later, including lower chances of completing school successfully, lower wages and higher mortality. We need to think seriously about parental leave, because – as this study suggests – the possible benefits of taking leave flexibly before the birth 44 quite high.”
The study also suggests British women may be working for 45 now during pregnancy. While 16% of mothers questioned by the British Household Panel Study, which went as far back as 1991, worked up to one month before the birth, the figure was 30% in the Millennium Cohort Study, whose subjects were born in 2000 and 2001

(www.guardian.co.uk)

Work after eight months of pregnancy is as
harmful as smoking, study finds

Conal Urquhart and agencies
July 28, 2012
Working after eight months of pregnancy is as harmful for babies as smoking, according to a new study. Women who worked after they were eight months pregnant had babies on average around 230g lighter than those who stopped work between six and eight months.
The University of Essex research – which drew on data from three major studies, two in the UK and one in the US – found the effect of continuing to work during the late stages of pregnancy was equal to that of smoking while pregnant. Babies whose mothers worked or smoked throughout pregnancy grew more slowly in the womb.
Past research has shown babies with low birth weights are at higher risk of poor health and slow development, and may suffer from a variety of problems later in life. Stopping work early in pregnancy was particularly beneficial for women with lower levels of education, the study found – suggesting that the effect of working during pregnancy was possibly more marked for those doing physically demanding work. The birth weight of babies born to mothers under the age of 24 was not affected by them continuing to work, but in older mothers the effect was more significant.
The researchers identified 1,339 children whose mothers were part of the British Household Panel Survey, which was conducted between 1991 and 2005, and for whom data was available. A further sample of 17,483 women who gave birth in 2000 or 2001 and who took part in the Millennium Cohort Study was also examined and showed similar results, along with 12,166 from the National Survey of Family Growth, relating to births in the US between the early 1970s and 1995.
One of the authors of the study, Prof. Marco Francesconi, said the government should consider incentives employers to offer more flexible maternity leave to 42 women who might need a break before, 43 after, their babies were born. He said: “We know low birth weight is a predictor of many things that happen later, including lower chances of completing school successfully, lower wages and higher mortality. We need to think seriously about parental leave, because – as this study suggests – the possible benefits of taking leave flexibly before the birth 44 quite high.”
The study also suggests British women may be working for 45 now during pregnancy. While 16% of mothers questioned by the British Household Panel Study, which went as far back as 1991, worked up to one month before the birth, the figure was 30% in the Millennium Cohort Study, whose subjects were born in 2000 and 2001

(www.guardian.co.uk)

Work after eight months of pregnancy is as
harmful as smoking, study finds

Conal Urquhart and agencies
July 28, 2012
Working after eight months of pregnancy is as harmful for babies as smoking, according to a new study. Women who worked after they were eight months pregnant had babies on average around 230g lighter than those who stopped work between six and eight months.
The University of Essex research – which drew on data from three major studies, two in the UK and one in the US – found the effect of continuing to work during the late stages of pregnancy was equal to that of smoking while pregnant. Babies whose mothers worked or smoked throughout pregnancy grew more slowly in the womb.
Past research has shown babies with low birth weights are at higher risk of poor health and slow development, and may suffer from a variety of problems later in life. Stopping work early in pregnancy was particularly beneficial for women with lower levels of education, the study found – suggesting that the effect of working during pregnancy was possibly more marked for those doing physically demanding work. The birth weight of babies born to mothers under the age of 24 was not affected by them continuing to work, but in older mothers the effect was more significant.
The researchers identified 1,339 children whose mothers were part of the British Household Panel Survey, which was conducted between 1991 and 2005, and for whom data was available. A further sample of 17,483 women who gave birth in 2000 or 2001 and who took part in the Millennium Cohort Study was also examined and showed similar results, along with 12,166 from the National Survey of Family Growth, relating to births in the US between the early 1970s and 1995.
One of the authors of the study, Prof. Marco Francesconi, said the government should consider incentives employers to offer more flexible maternity leave to 42 women who might need a break before, 43 after, their babies were born. He said: “We know low birth weight is a predictor of many things that happen later, including lower chances of completing school successfully, lower wages and higher mortality. We need to think seriously about parental leave, because – as this study suggests – the possible benefits of taking leave flexibly before the birth 44 quite high.”
The study also suggests British women may be working for 45 now during pregnancy. While 16% of mothers questioned by the British Household Panel Study, which went as far back as 1991, worked up to one month before the birth, the figure was 30% in the Millennium Cohort Study, whose subjects were born in 2000 and 2001

(www.guardian.co.uk)

Work after eight months of pregnancy is as
harmful as smoking, study finds

Conal Urquhart and agencies
July 28, 2012
Working after eight months of pregnancy is as harmful for babies as smoking, according to a new study. Women who worked after they were eight months pregnant had babies on average around 230g lighter than those who stopped work between six and eight months.
The University of Essex research – which drew on data from three major studies, two in the UK and one in the US – found the effect of continuing to work during the late stages of pregnancy was equal to that of smoking while pregnant. Babies whose mothers worked or smoked throughout pregnancy grew more slowly in the womb.
Past research has shown babies with low birth weights are at higher risk of poor health and slow development, and may suffer from a variety of problems later in life. Stopping work early in pregnancy was particularly beneficial for women with lower levels of education, the study found – suggesting that the effect of working during pregnancy was possibly more marked for those doing physically demanding work. The birth weight of babies born to mothers under the age of 24 was not affected by them continuing to work, but in older mothers the effect was more significant.
The researchers identified 1,339 children whose mothers were part of the British Household Panel Survey, which was conducted between 1991 and 2005, and for whom data was available. A further sample of 17,483 women who gave birth in 2000 or 2001 and who took part in the Millennium Cohort Study was also examined and showed similar results, along with 12,166 from the National Survey of Family Growth, relating to births in the US between the early 1970s and 1995.
One of the authors of the study, Prof. Marco Francesconi, said the government should consider incentives employers to offer more flexible maternity leave to 42 women who might need a break before, 43 after, their babies were born. He said: “We know low birth weight is a predictor of many things that happen later, including lower chances of completing school successfully, lower wages and higher mortality. We need to think seriously about parental leave, because – as this study suggests – the possible benefits of taking leave flexibly before the birth 44 quite high.”
The study also suggests British women may be working for 45 now during pregnancy. While 16% of mothers questioned by the British Household Panel Study, which went as far back as 1991, worked up to one month before the birth, the figure was 30% in the Millennium Cohort Study, whose subjects were born in 2000 and 2001

(www.guardian.co.uk)

Work after eight months of pregnancy is as
harmful as smoking, study finds

Conal Urquhart and agencies
July 28, 2012
Working after eight months of pregnancy is as harmful for babies as smoking, according to a new study. Women who worked after they were eight months pregnant had babies on average around 230g lighter than those who stopped work between six and eight months.
The University of Essex research – which drew on data from three major studies, two in the UK and one in the US – found the effect of continuing to work during the late stages of pregnancy was equal to that of smoking while pregnant. Babies whose mothers worked or smoked throughout pregnancy grew more slowly in the womb.
Past research has shown babies with low birth weights are at higher risk of poor health and slow development, and may suffer from a variety of problems later in life. Stopping work early in pregnancy was particularly beneficial for women with lower levels of education, the study found – suggesting that the effect of working during pregnancy was possibly more marked for those doing physically demanding work. The birth weight of babies born to mothers under the age of 24 was not affected by them continuing to work, but in older mothers the effect was more significant.
The researchers identified 1,339 children whose mothers were part of the British Household Panel Survey, which was conducted between 1991 and 2005, and for whom data was available. A further sample of 17,483 women who gave birth in 2000 or 2001 and who took part in the Millennium Cohort Study was also examined and showed similar results, along with 12,166 from the National Survey of Family Growth, relating to births in the US between the early 1970s and 1995.
One of the authors of the study, Prof. Marco Francesconi, said the government should consider incentives employers to offer more flexible maternity leave to 42 women who might need a break before, 43 after, their babies were born. He said: “We know low birth weight is a predictor of many things that happen later, including lower chances of completing school successfully, lower wages and higher mortality. We need to think seriously about parental leave, because – as this study suggests – the possible benefits of taking leave flexibly before the birth 44 quite high.”
The study also suggests British women may be working for 45 now during pregnancy. While 16% of mothers questioned by the British Household Panel Study, which went as far back as 1991, worked up to one month before the birth, the figure was 30% in the Millennium Cohort Study, whose subjects were born in 2000 and 2001

(www.guardian.co.uk)

Work after eight months of pregnancy is as
harmful as smoking, study finds

Conal Urquhart and agencies
July 28, 2012
Working after eight months of pregnancy is as harmful for babies as smoking, according to a new study. Women who worked after they were eight months pregnant had babies on average around 230g lighter than those who stopped work between six and eight months.
The University of Essex research – which drew on data from three major studies, two in the UK and one in the US – found the effect of continuing to work during the late stages of pregnancy was equal to that of smoking while pregnant. Babies whose mothers worked or smoked throughout pregnancy grew more slowly in the womb.
Past research has shown babies with low birth weights are at higher risk of poor health and slow development, and may suffer from a variety of problems later in life. Stopping work early in pregnancy was particularly beneficial for women with lower levels of education, the study found – suggesting that the effect of working during pregnancy was possibly more marked for those doing physically demanding work. The birth weight of babies born to mothers under the age of 24 was not affected by them continuing to work, but in older mothers the effect was more significant.
The researchers identified 1,339 children whose mothers were part of the British Household Panel Survey, which was conducted between 1991 and 2005, and for whom data was available. A further sample of 17,483 women who gave birth in 2000 or 2001 and who took part in the Millennium Cohort Study was also examined and showed similar results, along with 12,166 from the National Survey of Family Growth, relating to births in the US between the early 1970s and 1995.
One of the authors of the study, Prof. Marco Francesconi, said the government should consider incentives employers to offer more flexible maternity leave to 42 women who might need a break before, 43 after, their babies were born. He said: “We know low birth weight is a predictor of many things that happen later, including lower chances of completing school successfully, lower wages and higher mortality. We need to think seriously about parental leave, because – as this study suggests – the possible benefits of taking leave flexibly before the birth 44 quite high.”
The study also suggests British women may be working for 45 now during pregnancy. While 16% of mothers questioned by the British Household Panel Study, which went as far back as 1991, worked up to one month before the birth, the figure was 30% in the Millennium Cohort Study, whose subjects were born in 2000 and 2001

(www.guardian.co.uk)

Leia os versos de Cecília Meireles, extraídos do poema Epigrama n.º 8.

Encostei-me a ti, sabendo bem que eras somente onda. Sabendo bem que eras nuvem, depus a minha vida em ti. Como sabia bem tudo isso, e dei-me ao teu destino frágil, fiquei sem poder chorar, quando caí.

Todo estudante sabe que atualidade também é questão de vestibular. Para garantir um bom desempenho, fique atento a temas que se repetem durante alguns dias em jornais, sites ou canais de TV. Quando estiver se informando, relacione os acontecimentos aos conteúdos aprendidos em sala de aula. E cuidado especial com meio ambiente, sempre em alta nas provas.

Leia o poema de Almeida Garrett.

Seus olhos

Seus olhos – se eu sei pintar
O que os meus olhos cegou –
Não tinham luz de brilhar,
Era chama de queimar;
E o fogo que a ateou
Vivaz, eterno, divino,
Como facho do Destino.

Divino, eterno! – e suave
Ao mesmo tempo: mas grave
E de tão fatal poder,
Que, um só momento que a vi,
Queimar toda alma senti...
Nem ficou mais de meu ser,
Senão a cinza em que ardi.

Observe a imagem veiculada na internet.

Chove chuva, chove sem parar

O óbvio, o esperado. Nos últimos dias, o comentário que teimou e bateu ponto em qualquer canto de Curitiba, principalmente nos botecos, foi um só:
– Mas que chuvarada, né?
De olho no nível das águas do pequeno riacho que passa junto à mansão da Vila Piroquinha, Natureza Morta procurou o lado bom de tanta chuva ininterrupta.
Concluiu que, pelo excesso de uso, dispositivo sempre operante, o tempo fez a alegria do pessoal que conserta limpador de para-brisa. Desse pessoal e, nem tanto, de quem vende guarda-chuva. Afinal, do jeito que a coisa andava, agravada pelo frio, a freguesia – de maneira compulsória – praticamente desapareceu das ruas.

(Gazeta do Povo, 02.08.2011.)

Chove chuva, chove sem parar

O óbvio, o esperado. Nos últimos dias, o comentário que teimou e bateu ponto em qualquer canto de Curitiba, principalmente nos botecos, foi um só:
– Mas que chuvarada, né?
De olho no nível das águas do pequeno riacho que passa junto à mansão da Vila Piroquinha, Natureza Morta procurou o lado bom de tanta chuva ininterrupta.
Concluiu que, pelo excesso de uso, dispositivo sempre operante, o tempo fez a alegria do pessoal que conserta limpador de para-brisa. Desse pessoal e, nem tanto, de quem vende guarda-chuva. Afinal, do jeito que a coisa andava, agravada pelo frio, a freguesia – de maneira compulsória – praticamente desapareceu das ruas.

(Gazeta do Povo, 02.08.2011.)

Chove chuva, chove sem parar

O óbvio, o esperado. Nos últimos dias, o comentário que teimou e bateu ponto em qualquer canto de Curitiba, principalmente nos botecos, foi um só:
– Mas que chuvarada, né?
De olho no nível das águas do pequeno riacho que passa junto à mansão da Vila Piroquinha, Natureza Morta procurou o lado bom de tanta chuva ininterrupta.
Concluiu que, pelo excesso de uso, dispositivo sempre operante, o tempo fez a alegria do pessoal que conserta limpador de para-brisa. Desse pessoal e, nem tanto, de quem vende guarda-chuva. Afinal, do jeito que a coisa andava, agravada pelo frio, a freguesia – de maneira compulsória – praticamente desapareceu das ruas.

(Gazeta do Povo, 02.08.2011.)

O que o excesso de gordura tem a ver com problemas de memória? Tudo, segundo estudos recentes. O último foi feito na Kent State University (EUA) e mostrou que pacientes submetidos à cirurgia bariátrica exibiram melhora na capacidade de armazenar informações 12 semanas depois da operação. “Estamos acompanhando esses indivíduos para checar se a performance continua - rá a mesma um ano e dois anos depois”, disse à ISTOÉ John Gunstad, líder da pesquisa. Na sua experiência clínica, o médico Roberto Rizzi, membro da Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Bariátrica e Metabólica, já havia observado a associação. “Percebe-se que após uma grande perda de peso há melhoria no poder de se lembrar das coisas”, diz.

Considere o texto.

Para responder a questão, leia o trecho do conto de Machado de Assis.

Flor Anônima

Manhã clara. A alma de Martinha é que acordou escura.
Tinha ido na véspera a um casamento; e, ao tornar para casa, com a tia que mora com ela, não podia encobrir a tristeza que lhe dera a alegria dos outros e particularmente dos noivos.
Martinha ia nos seus... Nascera há muitos anos. Toda a gente que estava em casa, quando ela nasceu, anunciou que seria a felicidade da família. O pai não cabia em si de contente.
– Há de ser linda!
– Há de ser boa!
– Há de ser condessa!
– Há de ser rainha!
Essas e outras profecias iam ocorrendo aos parentes e amigos da casa.
Lá vão... Aqui pega a alma escura de Martinha. Lá vão quarenta e três anos — ou quarenta e cinco, segundo a tia; Martinha, porém, afirma que são quarenta e três. Adotemos este número. Para ti, moça de vinte anos, a diferença é nada; mas deixa-te ir aos quarenta, nas mesmas circunstâncias que ela, e verás se não te cerceias uns dois anos. E depois nada obsta que marches um pouco para trás. Quarenta e três, quarenta e dois, fazem tão pouca diferença...
Naturalmente a leitora espera que o marido de Martinha apareça, depois de ter lido os jornais ou enxugado do banho. Mas é que não há marido, nem nada. Martinha é solteira, e daí vem a alma escura desta bela manhã clara e fresca, posterior à noite de bodas.
Só, tão só, provavelmente só até a morte; e Martinha morrerá tarde, porque é robusta como um trabalhador e sã como um pero. Não teve mais que a tia velha. Pai e mãe morreram, e cedo.
A culpa dessa solidão a quem pertence? Ao destino ou a ela? Martinha crê, às vezes, que ao destino; às vezes, acusase a si própria. Nós podemos descobrir a verdade, indo com ela abrir a gaveta, a caixa, e na caixa a bolsa de veludo verde e velha, em que estão guardadas todas as suas lembranças amorosas. Agora que assistira ao casamento da outra, teve ideia de inventariar o passado. Contudo hesitou:
– Não, para que ver isto? É pior: deixemos recordações aborrecidas.

(www.dominiopublico.gov.br. Adaptado.)

Para responder a questão, leia o trecho do conto de Machado de Assis.

Flor Anônima

Manhã clara. A alma de Martinha é que acordou escura.
Tinha ido na véspera a um casamento; e, ao tornar para casa, com a tia que mora com ela, não podia encobrir a tristeza que lhe dera a alegria dos outros e particularmente dos noivos.
Martinha ia nos seus... Nascera há muitos anos. Toda a gente que estava em casa, quando ela nasceu, anunciou que seria a felicidade da família. O pai não cabia em si de contente.
– Há de ser linda!
– Há de ser boa!
– Há de ser condessa!
– Há de ser rainha!
Essas e outras profecias iam ocorrendo aos parentes e amigos da casa.
Lá vão... Aqui pega a alma escura de Martinha. Lá vão quarenta e três anos — ou quarenta e cinco, segundo a tia; Martinha, porém, afirma que são quarenta e três. Adotemos este número. Para ti, moça de vinte anos, a diferença é nada; mas deixa-te ir aos quarenta, nas mesmas circunstâncias que ela, e verás se não te cerceias uns dois anos. E depois nada obsta que marches um pouco para trás. Quarenta e três, quarenta e dois, fazem tão pouca diferença...
Naturalmente a leitora espera que o marido de Martinha apareça, depois de ter lido os jornais ou enxugado do banho. Mas é que não há marido, nem nada. Martinha é solteira, e daí vem a alma escura desta bela manhã clara e fresca, posterior à noite de bodas.
Só, tão só, provavelmente só até a morte; e Martinha morrerá tarde, porque é robusta como um trabalhador e sã como um pero. Não teve mais que a tia velha. Pai e mãe morreram, e cedo.
A culpa dessa solidão a quem pertence? Ao destino ou a ela? Martinha crê, às vezes, que ao destino; às vezes, acusase a si própria. Nós podemos descobrir a verdade, indo com ela abrir a gaveta, a caixa, e na caixa a bolsa de veludo verde e velha, em que estão guardadas todas as suas lembranças amorosas. Agora que assistira ao casamento da outra, teve ideia de inventariar o passado. Contudo hesitou:
– Não, para que ver isto? É pior: deixemos recordações aborrecidas.

(www.dominiopublico.gov.br. Adaptado.)

Para responder a questão, leia o trecho do conto de Machado de Assis.

Flor Anônima

Manhã clara. A alma de Martinha é que acordou escura.
Tinha ido na véspera a um casamento; e, ao tornar para casa, com a tia que mora com ela, não podia encobrir a tristeza que lhe dera a alegria dos outros e particularmente dos noivos.
Martinha ia nos seus... Nascera há muitos anos. Toda a gente que estava em casa, quando ela nasceu, anunciou que seria a felicidade da família. O pai não cabia em si de contente.
– Há de ser linda!
– Há de ser boa!
– Há de ser condessa!
– Há de ser rainha!
Essas e outras profecias iam ocorrendo aos parentes e amigos da casa.
Lá vão... Aqui pega a alma escura de Martinha. Lá vão quarenta e três anos — ou quarenta e cinco, segundo a tia; Martinha, porém, afirma que são quarenta e três. Adotemos este número. Para ti, moça de vinte anos, a diferença é nada; mas deixa-te ir aos quarenta, nas mesmas circunstâncias que ela, e verás se não te cerceias uns dois anos. E depois nada obsta que marches um pouco para trás. Quarenta e três, quarenta e dois, fazem tão pouca diferença...
Naturalmente a leitora espera que o marido de Martinha apareça, depois de ter lido os jornais ou enxugado do banho. Mas é que não há marido, nem nada. Martinha é solteira, e daí vem a alma escura desta bela manhã clara e fresca, posterior à noite de bodas.
Só, tão só, provavelmente só até a morte; e Martinha morrerá tarde, porque é robusta como um trabalhador e sã como um pero. Não teve mais que a tia velha. Pai e mãe morreram, e cedo.
A culpa dessa solidão a quem pertence? Ao destino ou a ela? Martinha crê, às vezes, que ao destino; às vezes, acusase a si própria. Nós podemos descobrir a verdade, indo com ela abrir a gaveta, a caixa, e na caixa a bolsa de veludo verde e velha, em que estão guardadas todas as suas lembranças amorosas. Agora que assistira ao casamento da outra, teve ideia de inventariar o passado. Contudo hesitou:
– Não, para que ver isto? É pior: deixemos recordações aborrecidas.

(www.dominiopublico.gov.br. Adaptado.)

Para responder a questão, leia o trecho do conto de Machado de Assis.

Flor Anônima

Manhã clara. A alma de Martinha é que acordou escura.
Tinha ido na véspera a um casamento; e, ao tornar para casa, com a tia que mora com ela, não podia encobrir a tristeza que lhe dera a alegria dos outros e particularmente dos noivos.
Martinha ia nos seus... Nascera há muitos anos. Toda a gente que estava em casa, quando ela nasceu, anunciou que seria a felicidade da família. O pai não cabia em si de contente.
– Há de ser linda!
– Há de ser boa!
– Há de ser condessa!
– Há de ser rainha!
Essas e outras profecias iam ocorrendo aos parentes e amigos da casa.
Lá vão... Aqui pega a alma escura de Martinha. Lá vão quarenta e três anos — ou quarenta e cinco, segundo a tia; Martinha, porém, afirma que são quarenta e três. Adotemos este número. Para ti, moça de vinte anos, a diferença é nada; mas deixa-te ir aos quarenta, nas mesmas circunstâncias que ela, e verás se não te cerceias uns dois anos. E depois nada obsta que marches um pouco para trás. Quarenta e três, quarenta e dois, fazem tão pouca diferença...
Naturalmente a leitora espera que o marido de Martinha apareça, depois de ter lido os jornais ou enxugado do banho. Mas é que não há marido, nem nada. Martinha é solteira, e daí vem a alma escura desta bela manhã clara e fresca, posterior à noite de bodas.
Só, tão só, provavelmente só até a morte; e Martinha morrerá tarde, porque é robusta como um trabalhador e sã como um pero. Não teve mais que a tia velha. Pai e mãe morreram, e cedo.
A culpa dessa solidão a quem pertence? Ao destino ou a ela? Martinha crê, às vezes, que ao destino; às vezes, acusase a si própria. Nós podemos descobrir a verdade, indo com ela abrir a gaveta, a caixa, e na caixa a bolsa de veludo verde e velha, em que estão guardadas todas as suas lembranças amorosas. Agora que assistira ao casamento da outra, teve ideia de inventariar o passado. Contudo hesitou:
– Não, para que ver isto? É pior: deixemos recordações aborrecidas.

(www.dominiopublico.gov.br. Adaptado.)

Para responder a questão, leia o trecho do conto de Machado de Assis.

Flor Anônima

Manhã clara. A alma de Martinha é que acordou escura.
Tinha ido na véspera a um casamento; e, ao tornar para casa, com a tia que mora com ela, não podia encobrir a tristeza que lhe dera a alegria dos outros e particularmente dos noivos.
Martinha ia nos seus... Nascera há muitos anos. Toda a gente que estava em casa, quando ela nasceu, anunciou que seria a felicidade da família. O pai não cabia em si de contente.
– Há de ser linda!
– Há de ser boa!
– Há de ser condessa!
– Há de ser rainha!
Essas e outras profecias iam ocorrendo aos parentes e amigos da casa.
Lá vão... Aqui pega a alma escura de Martinha. Lá vão quarenta e três anos — ou quarenta e cinco, segundo a tia; Martinha, porém, afirma que são quarenta e três. Adotemos este número. Para ti, moça de vinte anos, a diferença é nada; mas deixa-te ir aos quarenta, nas mesmas circunstâncias que ela, e verás se não te cerceias uns dois anos. E depois nada obsta que marches um pouco para trás. Quarenta e três, quarenta e dois, fazem tão pouca diferença...
Naturalmente a leitora espera que o marido de Martinha apareça, depois de ter lido os jornais ou enxugado do banho. Mas é que não há marido, nem nada. Martinha é solteira, e daí vem a alma escura desta bela manhã clara e fresca, posterior à noite de bodas.
Só, tão só, provavelmente só até a morte; e Martinha morrerá tarde, porque é robusta como um trabalhador e sã como um pero. Não teve mais que a tia velha. Pai e mãe morreram, e cedo.
A culpa dessa solidão a quem pertence? Ao destino ou a ela? Martinha crê, às vezes, que ao destino; às vezes, acusase a si própria. Nós podemos descobrir a verdade, indo com ela abrir a gaveta, a caixa, e na caixa a bolsa de veludo verde e velha, em que estão guardadas todas as suas lembranças amorosas. Agora que assistira ao casamento da outra, teve ideia de inventariar o passado. Contudo hesitou:
– Não, para que ver isto? É pior: deixemos recordações aborrecidas.

(www.dominiopublico.gov.br. Adaptado.)

Instrução: Leia o texto para responder a questão.

O Romualdo tinha nascido, talvez, para os mais altos destinos; mas como os pais se esqueceram de mandar educálo, e ele mal sabia ler e escrever, o mais que arranjou foi ser soldado do exército, e, depois de obtida a sua baixa, contínuo de secretaria.
Releva dizer que o Romualdo só deixou crescer as barbas depois de contínuo; se as usasse quando era soldado e guerreava no Paraguai, chegaria a capitão pelo menos.
Mas que contínuo! Alto, gordo, ereto, com aquelas opulentas suíças brancas a emoldurar-lhe a cara, sem bigodes, mais parecia um magistrado, cuja figura estava ao pintar para presidir a um júri sensacional, e essa ilusão só se desfazia quando ele falava, porque o Romualdo, benza-o Deus! por mais que compusesse a sua fisionomia austera e veneranda, tinha o estilo e a prosápia do “povo da lira”. Calado era um juiz; falando, um capadócio.

(Arthur Azevedo. As Barbas do Romualdo, em:
www.releituras.com.br/aazevedo_barbas.asp)

Instrução: Leia o texto para responder a questão.

O Romualdo tinha nascido, talvez, para os mais altos destinos; mas como os pais se esqueceram de mandar educálo, e ele mal sabia ler e escrever, o mais que arranjou foi ser soldado do exército, e, depois de obtida a sua baixa, contínuo de secretaria.
Releva dizer que o Romualdo só deixou crescer as barbas depois de contínuo; se as usasse quando era soldado e guerreava no Paraguai, chegaria a capitão pelo menos.
Mas que contínuo! Alto, gordo, ereto, com aquelas opulentas suíças brancas a emoldurar-lhe a cara, sem bigodes, mais parecia um magistrado, cuja figura estava ao pintar para presidir a um júri sensacional, e essa ilusão só se desfazia quando ele falava, porque o Romualdo, benza-o Deus! por mais que compusesse a sua fisionomia austera e veneranda, tinha o estilo e a prosápia do “povo da lira”. Calado era um juiz; falando, um capadócio.

(Arthur Azevedo. As Barbas do Romualdo, em:
www.releituras.com.br/aazevedo_barbas.asp)

Instrução: Leia o texto para responder a questão.

Mato, grosso até quando?

Em agosto de 2005, quando os astronautas do ônibus espacial Discovery retornaram à Terra, a comandante Eileen Collins chamou a atenção para o ritmo acelerado do desmatamento no planeta, facilmente observado do espaço. (...)
O Brasil destaca-se nesse cenário tanto por ter a maior floresta tropical do mundo quanto por ser líder mundial em desmatamento. O agronegócio, a exploração madei reira irracional e a especulação fundiária são as causas desse processo. Entre os estados, o Mato Grosso responde por quase 50% do desmatamento anual na Amazônia brasileira. A julgar pelo que ocorre no presente, as projeções apontam para um cenário ambientalmente catastrófico para esse estado, que chegará a 2020 com menos de 23% da sua cobertura florestal original.

(Ciência Hoje, vol. 42, n.º 248, maio de 2008. Adaptado.)

Leia as frases.
I. Antes de o ônibus espacial Discovery chegar na Terra, a comandante Eileen Collins chamou a atenção para o ritmo acelerado do desmatamento no planeta.
II. O desmatamento no Brasil ocorre devido o agronegócio, a exploração madeireira irracional e a especulação fundiária.
III. Segundo as projeções, existem possibilidades de que haja um cenário ambientalmente catastrófico para o estado de Mato Grosso.

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O crack vicia para sempre na primeira vez em que seus componentes químicos inundam o cérebro do usuário. A pessoa passa a roubar e matar, se preciso, para satisfazer as demandas psíquicas e físicas impostas pela abstinência.
Famílias inteiras são tragadas pelas assustadoras crises dos viciados, ________ fúria desfaz os laços domésticos mais estáveis, renega as normas básicas da convivência social e anula mesmo a educação mais primorosa.
_________isso, as autoridades em Brasília sentem-se modernas e libertárias ao atender a anseios dos organizadores das “marchas da maconha”. Tudo a favor da liberdade de expressão, mas sem esquecer que as drogas leves são a porta de entrada para o crack e sua trágica rota sem volta.

(Veja, 22.06.2011. Adaptado.)

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O crack vicia para sempre na primeira vez em que seus componentes químicos inundam o cérebro do usuário. A pessoa passa a roubar e matar, se preciso, para satisfazer as demandas psíquicas e físicas impostas pela abstinência.
Famílias inteiras são tragadas pelas assustadoras crises dos viciados, que a fúria desfaz os laços domésticos mais estáveis, renega as normas básicas da convivência social e anula mesmo a educação mais primorosa.
para isso, as autoridades em Brasília sentem-se modernas e libertárias ao atender a anseios dos organizadores das “marchas da maconha”. Tudo a favor da liberdade de expressão, mas sem esquecer que as drogas leves são a porta de entrada para o crack e sua trágica rota sem volta.

(Veja, 22.06.2011. Adaptado.)

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O crack vicia para sempre na primeira vez em que seus componentes químicos inundam o cérebro do usuário. A pessoa passa a roubar e matar, se preciso, para satisfazer as demandas psíquicas e físicas impostas pela abstinência.
Famílias inteiras são tragadas pelas assustadoras crises dos viciados, que a fúria desfaz os laços domésticos mais estáveis, renega as normas básicas da convivência social e anula mesmo a educação mais primorosa.
para isso, as autoridades em Brasília sentem-se modernas e libertárias ao atender a anseios dos organizadores das “marchas da maconha”. Tudo a favor da liberdade de expressão, mas sem esquecer que as drogas leves são a porta de entrada para o crack e sua trágica rota sem volta.

(Veja, 22.06.2011. Adaptado.)

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Quando a grávida usa crack ou cocaína, o bebê costuma nascer hiperexcitado, irritado, choroso. É sinal de que a droga chegou ao cérebro e pode ter provocado alterações de desenvolvimento.
Mas o resultado desse contato precoce só pode ser observado anos depois, quando a criança começar sua vida escolar.
(...)
A grande preocupação em relação ao crack e à cocaína é o desenvolvimento futuro da criança. “As drogas alteram a arquitetura cerebral do feto. Elas mudam a formação de sinapses, conexões e circuitos. Ao final, podem provocar alterações cognitivas que prejudicam a vida social e escolar da criança. Sua capacidade de entender conceitos abstratos e fazer associações pode ser comprometida”, diz Ruth Guins burg, professora de pediatria neonatal da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp).

(Época, 20.06.2011. Adaptado.)

As alternativas contêm trechos extraídos da revista Língua Portuguesa, n.º 79, de abril de 2011. Assinale aquela em que a relação de causa e efeito expressa pelos termos destacados no trecho – Quando a grávida usa crack ou cocaína, o bebê costuma nascer hiperexcitado, irritado, choroso. – também ocorre.

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1

Descobri aos 13 anos que o que me
dava prazer nas leituras não era a
beleza das frases, mas a doença delas.

2

Respeito as oralidades.
Eu escrevo o rumor das palavras.
Não sou sandeu* de gramáticas.
Só sei o nada aumentado.

(Versos extraídos de O Livro das Ignorãças.)

*tolo

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1

Descobri aos 13 anos que o que me
dava prazer nas leituras não era a
beleza das frases, mas a doença delas.

2

Respeito as oralidades.
Eu escrevo o rumor das palavras.
Não sou sandeu* de gramáticas.
Só sei o nada aumentado.

(Versos extraídos de O Livro das Ignorãças.)

*tolo

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1

Descobri aos 13 anos que o que me
dava prazer nas leituras não era a
beleza das frases, mas a doença delas.

2

Respeito as oralidades.
Eu escrevo o rumor das palavras.
Não sou sandeu* de gramáticas.
Só sei o nada aumentado.

(Versos extraídos de O Livro das Ignorãças.)

*tolo

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How computers will soon get under our skin

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
12 August 2011

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The device, which is almost invisible, can perform just as well as more conventional electronic machines but without the need for wires or bulky power supplies, scientists said. The development could mark a new era in consumer electronics. The technology could be used for applications ranging from medical diagnosis to covert military operations.
The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue. “We think this could be an important conceptual advance in wearable electronics, to achieve something that is almost unnoticeable to the wearer. The technology can connect you to the physical world and the cyberworld in a very natural way that feels comfortable,” said Professor Todd Coleman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research team.
A simple stick-on circuit can monitor a person’s heart rate and muscle movements as well as conventional medical monitors, but with the benefit of being weightless and almost completely undetectable. Scientists said it may also be possible to build a circuit for detecting throat movements around the larynx in order to transmit the information wirelessly as a way of recording a person’s speech, even if they are not making any discernible sounds.
Tests have already shown that such a system can be used to control a voice-activated computer game, and one suggestion is that a stick-on voicebox circuit could be used in covert police operations where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. “The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here,” said Yonggang Huang, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It’s two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them.”
Engineers have built test circuits mounted on a thin, rubbery substrate that adheres to the skin. The circuits have included sensors, light-emitting diodes, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells. “We threw everything in our bag of tricks on to that platform, and then added a few other new ideas on top of those, to show that we could make it work,” said John Rogers, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead author of the study, published in the journal Science.

(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)

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How computers will soon get under our skin

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
12 August 2011

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The device, which is almost invisible, can perform just as well as more conventional electronic machines but without the need for wires or bulky power supplies, scientists said. The development could mark a new era in consumer electronics. The technology could be used for applications ranging from medical diagnosis to covert military operations.
The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue. “We think this could be an important conceptual advance in wearable electronics, to achieve something that is almost unnoticeable to the wearer. The technology can connect you to the physical world and the cyberworld in a very natural way that feels comfortable,” said Professor Todd Coleman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research team.
A simple stick-on circuit can monitor a person’s heart rate and muscle movements as well as conventional medical monitors, but with the benefit of being weightless and almost completely undetectable. Scientists said it may also be possible to build a circuit for detecting throat movements around the larynx in order to transmit the information wirelessly as a way of recording a person’s speech, even if they are not making any discernible sounds.
Tests have already shown that such a system can be used to control a voice-activated computer game, and one suggestion is that a stick-on voicebox circuit could be used in covert police operations where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. “The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here,” said Yonggang Huang, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It’s two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them.”
Engineers have built test circuits mounted on a thin, rubbery substrate that adheres to the skin. The circuits have included sensors, light-emitting diodes, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells. “We threw everything in our bag of tricks on to that platform, and then added a few other new ideas on top of those, to show that we could make it work,” said John Rogers, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead author of the study, published in the journal Science.

(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)

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How computers will soon get under our skin

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
12 August 2011

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The device, which is almost invisible, can perform just as well as more conventional electronic machines but without the need for wires or bulky power supplies, scientists said. The development could mark a new era in consumer electronics. The technology could be used for applications ranging from medical diagnosis to covert military operations.
The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue. “We think this could be an important conceptual advance in wearable electronics, to achieve something that is almost unnoticeable to the wearer. The technology can connect you to the physical world and the cyberworld in a very natural way that feels comfortable,” said Professor Todd Coleman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research team.
A simple stick-on circuit can monitor a person’s heart rate and muscle movements as well as conventional medical monitors, but with the benefit of being weightless and almost completely undetectable. Scientists said it may also be possible to build a circuit for detecting throat movements around the larynx in order to transmit the information wirelessly as a way of recording a person’s speech, even if they are not making any discernible sounds.
Tests have already shown that such a system can be used to control a voice-activated computer game, and one suggestion is that a stick-on voicebox circuit could be used in covert police operations where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. “The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here,” said Yonggang Huang, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It’s two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them.”
Engineers have built test circuits mounted on a thin, rubbery substrate that adheres to the skin. The circuits have included sensors, light-emitting diodes, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells. “We threw everything in our bag of tricks on to that platform, and then added a few other new ideas on top of those, to show that we could make it work,” said John Rogers, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead author of the study, published in the journal Science.

(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)

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How computers will soon get under our skin

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
12 August 2011

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The device, which is almost invisible, can perform just as well as more conventional electronic machines but without the need for wires or bulky power supplies, scientists said. The development could mark a new era in consumer electronics. The technology could be used for applications ranging from medical diagnosis to covert military operations.
The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue. “We think this could be an important conceptual advance in wearable electronics, to achieve something that is almost unnoticeable to the wearer. The technology can connect you to the physical world and the cyberworld in a very natural way that feels comfortable,” said Professor Todd Coleman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research team.
A simple stick-on circuit can monitor a person’s heart rate and muscle movements as well as conventional medical monitors, but with the benefit of being weightless and almost completely undetectable. Scientists said it may also be possible to build a circuit for detecting throat movements around the larynx in order to transmit the information wirelessly as a way of recording a person’s speech, even if they are not making any discernible sounds.
Tests have already shown that such a system can be used to control a voice-activated computer game, and one suggestion is that a stick-on voicebox circuit could be used in covert police operations where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. “The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here,” said Yonggang Huang, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It’s two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them.”
Engineers have built test circuits mounted on a thin, rubbery substrate that adheres to the skin. The circuits have included sensors, light-emitting diodes, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells. “We threw everything in our bag of tricks on to that platform, and then added a few other new ideas on top of those, to show that we could make it work,” said John Rogers, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead author of the study, published in the journal Science.

(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)

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How computers will soon get under our skin

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
12 August 2011

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The device, which is almost invisible, can perform just as well as more conventional electronic machines but without the need for wires or bulky power supplies, scientists said. The development could mark a new era in consumer electronics. The technology could be used for applications ranging from medical diagnosis to covert military operations.
The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue. “We think this could be an important conceptual advance in wearable electronics, to achieve something that is almost unnoticeable to the wearer. The technology can connect you to the physical world and the cyberworld in a very natural way that feels comfortable,” said Professor Todd Coleman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research team.
A simple stick-on circuit can monitor a person’s heart rate and muscle movements as well as conventional medical monitors, but with the benefit of being weightless and almost completely undetectable. Scientists said it may also be possible to build a circuit for detecting throat movements around the larynx in order to transmit the information wirelessly as a way of recording a person’s speech, even if they are not making any discernible sounds.
Tests have already shown that such a system can be used to control a voice-activated computer game, and one suggestion is that a stick-on voicebox circuit could be used in covert police operations where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. “The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here,” said Yonggang Huang, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It’s two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them.”
Engineers have built test circuits mounted on a thin, rubbery substrate that adheres to the skin. The circuits have included sensors, light-emitting diodes, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells. “We threw everything in our bag of tricks on to that platform, and then added a few other new ideas on top of those, to show that we could make it work,” said John Rogers, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead author of the study, published in the journal Science.

(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)

In the excerpt of the fourth paragraph – where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. – the word might conveys an idea of

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How computers will soon get under our skin

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
12 August 2011

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The device, which is almost invisible, can perform just as well as more conventional electronic machines but without the need for wires or bulky power supplies, scientists said. The development could mark a new era in consumer electronics. The technology could be used for applications ranging from medical diagnosis to covert military operations.
The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue. “We think this could be an important conceptual advance in wearable electronics, to achieve something that is almost unnoticeable to the wearer. The technology can connect you to the physical world and the cyberworld in a very natural way that feels comfortable,” said Professor Todd Coleman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research team.
A simple stick-on circuit can monitor a person’s heart rate and muscle movements as well as conventional medical monitors, but with the benefit of being weightless and almost completely undetectable. Scientists said it may also be possible to build a circuit for detecting throat movements around the larynx in order to transmit the information wirelessly as a way of recording a person’s speech, even if they are not making any discernible sounds.
Tests have already shown that such a system can be used to control a voice-activated computer game, and one suggestion is that a stick-on voicebox circuit could be used in covert police operations where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. “The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here,” said Yonggang Huang, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It’s two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them.”
Engineers have built test circuits mounted on a thin, rubbery substrate that adheres to the skin. The circuits have included sensors, light-emitting diodes, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells. “We threw everything in our bag of tricks on to that platform, and then added a few other new ideas on top of those, to show that we could make it work,” said John Rogers, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead author of the study, published in the journal Science.

(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)

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How computers will soon get under our skin

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
12 August 2011

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The device, which is almost invisible, can perform just as well as more conventional electronic machines but without the need for wires or bulky power supplies, scientists said. The development could mark a new era in consumer electronics. The technology could be used for applications ranging from medical diagnosis to covert military operations.
The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue. “We think this could be an important conceptual advance in wearable electronics, to achieve something that is almost unnoticeable to the wearer. The technology can connect you to the physical world and the cyberworld in a very natural way that feels comfortable,” said Professor Todd Coleman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research team.
A simple stick-on circuit can monitor a person’s heart rate and muscle movements as well as conventional medical monitors, but with the benefit of being weightless and almost completely undetectable. Scientists said it may also be possible to build a circuit for detecting throat movements around the larynx in order to transmit the information wirelessly as a way of recording a person’s speech, even if they are not making any discernible sounds.
Tests have already shown that such a system can be used to control a voice-activated computer game, and one suggestion is that a stick-on voicebox circuit could be used in covert police operations where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. “The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here,” said Yonggang Huang, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It’s two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them.”
Engineers have built test circuits mounted on a thin, rubbery substrate that adheres to the skin. The circuits have included sensors, light-emitting diodes, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells. “We threw everything in our bag of tricks on to that platform, and then added a few other new ideas on top of those, to show that we could make it work,” said John Rogers, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead author of the study, published in the journal Science.

(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)

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How computers will soon get under our skin

By Steve Connor, Science Editor
12 August 2011

It may soon be possible to wear your computer or mobile phone under your sleeve, with the invention of an ultra-thin and flexible electronic circuit that can be stuck to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The device, which is almost invisible, can perform just as well as more conventional electronic machines but without the need for wires or bulky power supplies, scientists said. The development could mark a new era in consumer electronics. The technology could be used for applications ranging from medical diagnosis to covert military operations.
The “epidermal electronic system” relies on a highly flexible electrical circuit composed of snake-like conducting channels that can bend and stretch without affecting performance. The circuit is about the size of a postage stamp, is thinner than a human hair and sticks to the skin by natural electrostatic forces rather than glue. “We think this could be an important conceptual advance in wearable electronics, to achieve something that is almost unnoticeable to the wearer. The technology can connect you to the physical world and the cyberworld in a very natural way that feels comfortable,” said Professor Todd Coleman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research team.
A simple stick-on circuit can monitor a person’s heart rate and muscle movements as well as conventional medical monitors, but with the benefit of being weightless and almost completely undetectable. Scientists said it may also be possible to build a circuit for detecting throat movements around the larynx in order to transmit the information wirelessly as a way of recording a person’s speech, even if they are not making any discernible sounds.
Tests have already shown that such a system can be used to control a voice-activated computer game, and one suggestion is that a stick-on voicebox circuit could be used in covert police operations where it might be too dangerous to speak into a radio transmitter. “The blurring of electronics and biology is really the key point here,” said Yonggang Huang, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. “All established forms of electronics are hard, rigid. Biology is soft, elastic. It’s two different worlds. This is a way to truly integrate them.”
Engineers have built test circuits mounted on a thin, rubbery substrate that adheres to the skin. The circuits have included sensors, light-emitting diodes, transistors, radio frequency capacitors, wireless antennas, conductive coils and solar cells. “We threw everything in our bag of tricks on to that platform, and then added a few other new ideas on top of those, to show that we could make it work,” said John Rogers, professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a lead author of the study, published in the journal Science.

(www.independent.co.uk. Adaptado.)

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Longevity: Habits May Extend Life Only So Much

By Nicholas Bakalar
August 8, 2011

The eating, drinking and exercise habits of extremely old but healthy people differ little from those of the rest of us, a new study has found. Gerontologists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine recruited 477 Ashkenazi Jews ages 95 to 112 who were living independently. The researchers took blood samples, did physical examinations and obtained detailed personal and medical histories from each participant. Then they compared them with 1,374 non-Hispanic white adults, ages 65 to 74, from the general population. For both men and women, consumption of alcohol, amount of physical activity and the percentage of people on low-calorie or low-salt diets were almost identical in the two groups.
Long-lived men were less likely to be obese than their younger counterparts, although no less likely to be overweight. The oldest women were more likely to be overweight and less likely to be obese. More men among the oldest were nonsmokers, but smoking habits were not significantly different among the women.
43 that it all depends on genes, and we might as well eat, drink and be merry? No, according to the senior author, Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “For most of us who 44 genes for longevity,” he said, “if you follow the healthy lifestyle the medical community has put forth, you are 45 to live past 80.”
The study was published online last week in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

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Longevity: Habits May Extend Life Only So Much

By Nicholas Bakalar
August 8, 2011

The eating, drinking and exercise habits of extremely old but healthy people differ little from those of the rest of us, a new study has found. Gerontologists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine recruited 477 Ashkenazi Jews ages 95 to 112 who were living independently. The researchers took blood samples, did physical examinations and obtained detailed personal and medical histories from each participant. Then they compared them with 1,374 non-Hispanic white adults, ages 65 to 74, from the general population. For both men and women, consumption of alcohol, amount of physical activity and the percentage of people on low-calorie or low-salt diets were almost identical in the two groups.
Long-lived men were less likely to be obese than their younger counterparts, although no less likely to be overweight. The oldest women were more likely to be overweight and less likely to be obese. More men among the oldest were nonsmokers, but smoking habits were not significantly different among the women.
43 that it all depends on genes, and we might as well eat, drink and be merry? No, according to the senior author, Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “For most of us who 44 genes for longevity,” he said, “if you follow the healthy lifestyle the medical community has put forth, you are 45 to live past 80.”
The study was published online last week in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

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Longevity: Habits May Extend Life Only So Much

By Nicholas Bakalar
August 8, 2011

The eating, drinking and exercise habits of extremely old but healthy people differ little from those of the rest of us, a new study has found. Gerontologists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine recruited 477 Ashkenazi Jews ages 95 to 112 who were living independently. The researchers took blood samples, did physical examinations and obtained detailed personal and medical histories from each participant. Then they compared them with 1,374 non-Hispanic white adults, ages 65 to 74, from the general population. For both men and women, consumption of alcohol, amount of physical activity and the percentage of people on low-calorie or low-salt diets were almost identical in the two groups.
Long-lived men were less likely to be obese than their younger counterparts, although no less likely to be overweight. The oldest women were more likely to be overweight and less likely to be obese. More men among the oldest were nonsmokers, but smoking habits were not significantly different among the women.
43 that it all depends on genes, and we might as well eat, drink and be merry? No, according to the senior author, Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “For most of us who 44 genes for longevity,” he said, “if you follow the healthy lifestyle the medical community has put forth, you are 45 to live past 80.”
The study was published online last week in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

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Longevity: Habits May Extend Life Only So Much

By Nicholas Bakalar
August 8, 2011

The eating, drinking and exercise habits of extremely old but healthy people differ little from those of the rest of us, a new study has found. Gerontologists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine recruited 477 Ashkenazi Jews ages 95 to 112 who were living independently. The researchers took blood samples, did physical examinations and obtained detailed personal and medical histories from each participant. Then they compared them with 1,374 non-Hispanic white adults, ages 65 to 74, from the general population. For both men and women, consumption of alcohol, amount of physical activity and the percentage of people on low-calorie or low-salt diets were almost identical in the two groups.
Long-lived men were less likely to be obese than their younger counterparts, although no less likely to be overweight. The oldest women were more likely to be overweight and less likely to be obese. More men among the oldest were nonsmokers, but smoking habits were not significantly different among the women.
43 that it all depends on genes, and we might as well eat, drink and be merry? No, according to the senior author, Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “For most of us who 44 genes for longevity,” he said, “if you follow the healthy lifestyle the medical community has put forth, you are 45 to live past 80.”
The study was published online last week in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

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Longevity: Habits May Extend Life Only So Much

By Nicholas Bakalar
August 8, 2011

The eating, drinking and exercise habits of extremely old but healthy people differ little from those of the rest of us, a new study has found. Gerontologists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine recruited 477 Ashkenazi Jews ages 95 to 112 who were living independently. The researchers took blood samples, did physical examinations and obtained detailed personal and medical histories from each participant. Then they compared them with 1,374 non-Hispanic white adults, ages 65 to 74, from the general population. For both men and women, consumption of alcohol, amount of physical activity and the percentage of people on low-calorie or low-salt diets were almost identical in the two groups.
Long-lived men were less likely to be obese than their younger counterparts, although no less likely to be overweight. The oldest women were more likely to be overweight and less likely to be obese. More men among the oldest were nonsmokers, but smoking habits were not significantly different among the women.
43 that it all depends on genes, and we might as well eat, drink and be merry? No, according to the senior author, Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “For most of us who 44 genes for longevity,” he said, “if you follow the healthy lifestyle the medical community has put forth, you are 45 to live past 80.”
The study was published online last week in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

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Longevity: Habits May Extend Life Only So Much

By Nicholas Bakalar
August 8, 2011

The eating, drinking and exercise habits of extremely old but healthy people differ little from those of the rest of us, a new study has found. Gerontologists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine recruited 477 Ashkenazi Jews ages 95 to 112 who were living independently. The researchers took blood samples, did physical examinations and obtained detailed personal and medical histories from each participant. Then they compared them with 1,374 non-Hispanic white adults, ages 65 to 74, from the general population. For both men and women, consumption of alcohol, amount of physical activity and the percentage of people on low-calorie or low-salt diets were almost identical in the two groups.
Long-lived men were less likely to be obese than their younger counterparts, although no less likely to be overweight. The oldest women were more likely to be overweight and less likely to be obese. More men among the oldest were nonsmokers, but smoking habits were not significantly different among the women.
43 that it all depends on genes, and we might as well eat, drink and be merry? No, according to the senior author, Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “For most of us who 44 genes for longevity,” he said, “if you follow the healthy lifestyle the medical community has put forth, you are 45 to live past 80.”
The study was published online last week in The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

(www.nytimes.com. Adaptado.)

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A palavra bullying ainda é pouco conhecida do grande público brasileiro. De origem inglesa e ainda sem tradução no Brasil, é utilizada para qualificar comportamentos violentos no âmbito escolar, tanto de meninos quanto de meninas. Dentre esses comportamentos podemos des tacar as agressões, os assédios e as ações desrespeitosas, todos realizados de maneira recorrente e intencional por parte dos agressores. É fundamental explicitar que as atitudes tomadas por um ou mais agressores contra um ou alguns estudantes, geralmente, não apresentam motiva ções específicas ou justificáveis. Isso significa dizer que, de forma quase “natural”, os mais fortes utilizam os mais frágeis como meros objetos de diversão, prazer e poder, com o intuito de maltratar, intimidar, humilhar e amedrontar suas vítimas. E isso, invariavelmente, produz, alimenta e até perpetua muita dor e sofrimento nos vitimados.

(Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva.
Bullying: mentes perigosas nas escolas, 2010. Adaptado.)

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A palavra bullying ainda é pouco conhecida do grande público brasileiro. De origem inglesa e ainda sem tradução no Brasil, é utilizada para qualificar comportamentos violentos no âmbito escolar, tanto de meninos quanto de meninas. Dentre esses comportamentos podemos des tacar as agressões, os assédios e as ações desrespeitosas, todos realizados de maneira recorrente e intencional por parte dos agressores. É fundamental explicitar que as atitudes tomadas por um ou mais agressores contra um ou alguns estudantes, geralmente, não apresentam motiva ções específicas ou justificáveis. Isso significa dizer que, de forma quase “natural”, os mais fortes utilizam os mais frágeis como meros objetos de diversão, prazer e poder, com o intuito de maltratar, intimidar, humilhar e amedrontar suas vítimas. E isso, invariavelmente, produz, alimenta e até perpetua muita dor e sofrimento nos vitimados.

(Ana Beatriz Barbosa Silva.
Bullying: mentes perigosas nas escolas, 2010. Adaptado.)

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O cyberbullying é um problema crescente justamente porque os jovens usam cada vez mais a tecnologia. Ana, 13 anos, já era perseguida na escola – e passou a ser acuada, prisioneira de seus agressores via internet. Hoje, vive com medo e deixou de adicionar “amigos” em seu perfil no Orkut. Além disso, restringiu o acesso ao MSN. Mesmo assim, o tormento continua. As meninas de sua sala enviam mensagens depreciativas, com apelidos maldosos e recados humilhantes, para amigos comuns. Os qualificativos mais leves são “nojenta, nerd e lésbica”. Outros textos dizem: “Você deveria parar de falar com aquela piranha” e “A emo já mudou a sua cabe ça, hein? Vá pro inferno”. Ana, é claro, fica arrasada. “Uso preto, ouço rock e pinto o cabelo. Curto coisas diferentes e falo de outros assuntos. Por isso, não me aceitam.”

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Dimitria cursava a oitava série no colégio e desapareceu durante as férias de julho de 2008. Segundo a polícia, a garota avisou que iria viajar em companhia do caseiro, mas nunca mais foi vista. (...) De acordo com a polícia, [o caseiro] Silva disse que matou a menina porque era apaixonado por ela, mas ela não o correspondia.

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Nos últimos três anos foram assassinadas mais de 140 mil pessoas no Brasil. Uma média de 47 mil pessoas por ano. Uma parcela expressiva destas mortes, que varia de região para região, é atribuída à ação da polícia, que se respalda na impunidade para continuar cometendo seus crimes. São 25 assassinatos ao ano por cada 100 mil pessoas, índice considerado de violência epidêmica, segundo organismos internacionais.
Se os assassinatos com armas de fogo são uma face da violência vivida na nossa sociedade, ela não é a única. Logo atrás, em termos de letalidade, estão os acidentes fatais de trânsito, com cerca de 33 mil mortos em 2002 e 35 mil mortes por ano em 2004 e 2005. Isto, sem falar nos acidentados não fatais socorridos pelo Sistema Único de Saúde, que multiplicam muitas vezes os números aqui apresentados e representam um custo que o IPEA estima em R$ 5,3 bilhões para o ano de 2002.
A lista da violência alonga-se incrivelmente. Sobre as mulheres, os negros, os índios, os gays, sobre os mendigos na rua, sobre os movimentos sociais etc. Uma discussão num botequim de periferia pode terminar em morte. A privação do emprego, do salário digno, da educação, da saúde, do transporte público, da moradia, da segurança alimentar, tudo isso pode ser compreendido, conside rando que incide sobre direitos assegurados por nossa Constituição, como tantas outras formas de violência.

(Silvio Caccia Bava. Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil, agosto 2010. Adaptado.)

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Nos últimos três anos foram assassinadas mais de 140 mil pessoas no Brasil. Uma média de 47 mil pessoas por ano. Uma parcela expressiva destas mortes, que varia de região para região, é atribuída à ação da polícia, que se respalda na impunidade para continuar cometendo seus crimes. São 25 assassinatos ao ano por cada 100 mil pessoas, índice considerado de violência epidêmica, segundo organismos internacionais.
Se os assassinatos com armas de fogo são uma face da violência vivida na nossa sociedade, ela não é a única. Logo atrás, em termos de letalidade, estão os acidentes fatais de trânsito, com cerca de 33 mil mortos em 2002 e 35 mil mortes por ano em 2004 e 2005. Isto, sem falar nos acidentados não fatais socorridos pelo Sistema Único de Saúde, que multiplicam muitas vezes os números aqui apresentados e representam um custo que o IPEA estima em R$ 5,3 bilhões para o ano de 2002.
A lista da violência alonga-se incrivelmente. Sobre as mulheres, os negros, os índios, os gays, sobre os mendigos na rua, sobre os movimentos sociais etc. Uma discussão num botequim de periferia pode terminar em morte. A privação do emprego, do salário digno, da educação, da saúde, do transporte público, da moradia, da segurança alimentar, tudo isso pode ser compreendido, conside rando que incide sobre direitos assegurados por nossa Constituição, como tantas outras formas de violência.

(Silvio Caccia Bava. Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil, agosto 2010. Adaptado.)

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Nos últimos três anos foram assassinadas mais de 140 mil pessoas no Brasil. Uma média de 47 mil pessoas por ano. Uma parcela expressiva destas mortes, que varia de região para região, é atribuída à ação da polícia, que se respalda na impunidade para continuar cometendo seus crimes. São 25 assassinatos ao ano por cada 100 mil pessoas, índice considerado de violência epidêmica, segundo organismos internacionais.
Se os assassinatos com armas de fogo são uma face da violência vivida na nossa sociedade, ela não é a única. Logo atrás, em termos de letalidade, estão os acidentes fatais de trânsito, com cerca de 33 mil mortos em 2002 e 35 mil mortes por ano em 2004 e 2005. Isto, sem falar nos acidentados não fatais socorridos pelo Sistema Único de Saúde, que multiplicam muitas vezes os números aqui apresentados e representam um custo que o IPEA estima em R$ 5,3 bilhões para o ano de 2002.
A lista da violência alonga-se incrivelmente. Sobre as mulheres, os negros, os índios, os gays, sobre os mendigos na rua, sobre os movimentos sociais etc. Uma discussão num botequim de periferia pode terminar em morte. A privação do emprego, do salário digno, da educação, da saúde, do transporte público, da moradia, da segurança alimentar, tudo isso pode ser compreendido, conside rando que incide sobre direitos assegurados por nossa Constituição, como tantas outras formas de violência.

(Silvio Caccia Bava. Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil, agosto 2010. Adaptado.)

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Nos últimos três anos foram assassinadas mais de 140 mil pessoas no Brasil. Uma média de 47 mil pessoas por ano. Uma parcela expressiva destas mortes, que varia de região para região, é atribuída à ação da polícia, que se respalda na impunidade para continuar cometendo seus crimes. São 25 assassinatos ao ano por cada 100 mil pessoas, índice considerado de violência epidêmica, segundo organismos internacionais.
Se os assassinatos com armas de fogo são uma face da violência vivida na nossa sociedade, ela não é a única. Logo atrás, em termos de letalidade, estão os acidentes fatais de trânsito, com cerca de 33 mil mortos em 2002 e 35 mil mortes por ano em 2004 e 2005. Isto, sem falar nos acidentados não fatais socorridos pelo Sistema Único de Saúde, que multiplicam muitas vezes os números aqui apresentados e representam um custo que o IPEA estima em R$ 5,3 bilhões para o ano de 2002.
A lista da violência alonga-se incrivelmente. Sobre as mulheres, os negros, os índios, os gays, sobre os mendigos na rua, sobre os movimentos sociais etc. Uma discussão num botequim de periferia pode terminar em morte. A privação do emprego, do salário digno, da educação, da saúde, do transporte público, da moradia, da segurança alimentar, tudo isso pode ser compreendido, conside rando que incide sobre direitos assegurados por nossa Constituição, como tantas outras formas de violência.

(Silvio Caccia Bava. Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil, agosto 2010. Adaptado.)

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Nos últimos três anos foram assassinadas mais de 140 mil pessoas no Brasil. Uma média de 47 mil pessoas por ano. Uma parcela expressiva destas mortes, que varia de região para região, é atribuída à ação da polícia, que se respalda na impunidade para continuar cometendo seus crimes. São 25 assassinatos ao ano por cada 100 mil pessoas, índice considerado de violência epidêmica, segundo organismos internacionais.
Se os assassinatos com armas de fogo são uma face da violência vivida na nossa sociedade, ela não é a única. Logo atrás, em termos de letalidade, estão os acidentes fatais de trânsito, com cerca de 33 mil mortos em 2002 e 35 mil mortes por ano em 2004 e 2005. Isto, sem falar nos acidentados não fatais socorridos pelo Sistema Único de Saúde, que multiplicam muitas vezes os números aqui apresentados e representam um custo que o IPEA estima em R$ 5,3 bilhões para o ano de 2002.
A lista da violência alonga-se incrivelmente. Sobre as mulheres, os negros, os índios, os gays, sobre os mendigos na rua, sobre os movimentos sociais etc. Uma discussão num botequim de periferia pode terminar em morte. A privação do emprego, do salário digno, da educação, da saúde, do transporte público, da moradia, da segurança alimentar, tudo isso pode ser compreendido, conside rando que incide sobre direitos assegurados por nossa Constituição, como tantas outras formas de violência.

(Silvio Caccia Bava. Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil, agosto 2010. Adaptado.)

Por causa do assassinato do caminhoneiro Pascoal de Oliveira, o Nego, pelo – também caminhoneiro – japonês Kababe Massame, após uma discussão, em 31 de julho de 1946, a população de Osvaldo Cruz (SP), que já estava com os nervos à flor da pele em virtude de dois atentados da Shindô-Renmei* na cidade, saiu às ruas e invadiu casas, disposta a maltratar “impiedosamente”, na palavra do historiador local José Alvarenga, qualquer japonês que encontrasse pela frente. O linchamento dos japoneses só foi totalmente controlado com a intervenção de um destacamento do Exército, vindo de Tupã, chamado pelo médico Oswaldo Nunes, um herói daquele dia totalmente atípico na história de Osvaldo Cruz e das cidades brasileiras.
Com o final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, o eclipse do Estado Novo e o desmantelamento da Shindô-Renmei, inicia-se um ciclo de emudecimento, de ambos os lados, sobre as quatro décadas de intolerância vividas pelos japoneses. Do lado local, foi sedimentando-se no mundo das letras a ideia do país como um “paraíso racial”. Do lado dos imigrantes, as segundas e terceiras gerações de filhos de japoneses se concentraram, a partir da década de 1950, na construção da sua ascensão social. A história foi sendo esquecida, junto com o idioma e os hábitos culturais de seus pais e avós.

* Shindô-Renmei foi uma organização nacionalista, que surgiu no Brasil após o término da Segunda Guerra Mundial, formada por japoneses que não acreditavam na derrota do Japão na guerra. Possuía alguns membros mais fanáticos que cometiam atentados, tendo matado e ferido diversos cidadãos nipo-brasileiros.

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Ontem a Serra Leoa,
A guerra, a caça ao leão,
O sono dormido à toa
Sob as tendas d’amplidão!
Hoje... o porão negro, fundo,
Infecto, apertado, imundo,
Tendo a peste por jaguar...
E o sono sempre cortado
Pelo arranco de um finado,
E o baque de um corpo ao mar...

Ontem plena liberdade,
A vontade por poder...
Hoje... cúm’lo de maldade,
Nem são livres p’ra morrer...
Prende-os a mesma corrente
– Férrea, lúgubre serpente –
Nas roscas da escravidão.
E assim roubados à morte,
Dança a lúgubre coorte
Ao som do açoite... Irrisão!...

(Castro Alves. Fragmento de
O navio negreiro – tragédia no mar.)

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Ontem a Serra Leoa,
A guerra, a caça ao leão,
O sono dormido à toa
Sob as tendas d’amplidão!
Hoje... o porão negro, fundo,
Infecto, apertado, imundo,
Tendo a peste por jaguar...
E o sono sempre cortado
Pelo arranco de um finado,
E o baque de um corpo ao mar...

Ontem plena liberdade,
A vontade por poder...
Hoje... cúm’lo de maldade,
Nem são livres p’ra morrer...
Prende-os a mesma corrente
– Férrea, lúgubre serpente –
Nas roscas da escravidão.
E assim roubados à morte,
Dança a lúgubre coorte
Ao som do açoite... Irrisão!...

(Castro Alves. Fragmento de
O navio negreiro – tragédia no mar.)

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Amaro lia até tarde, um pouco perturbado por aqueles períodos sonoros, túmidos de desejo; e no silêncio, por vezes, sentia em cima ranger o leito de Amélia; o livro escorregava-lhe das mãos, encostava a cabeça às costas da poltrona, cerrava os olhos, e parecia-lhe vê-la em colete diante do toucador desfazendo as tranças; ou, curvada, desapertando as ligas, e o decote da sua camisa entreaberta descobria os dois seios muito brancos.
Erguia-se, cerrando os dentes, com uma decisão brutal de a possuir.
Começara então a recomendar-lhe a leitura dos Cânticos a Jesus.
– Verá, é muito bonito, de muita devoção! Disse ele, deixando- lhe o livrinho uma noite no cesto da costura.
Ao outro dia, ao almoço, Amélia estava pálida, com as olheiras até o meio da face. Queixou-se de insônia, de palpitações.
– E então, gostou dos Cânticos?
– Muito. Orações lindas! respondeu.
Durante todo esse dia não ergueu os olhos para Amaro. Parecia triste – e sem razão, às vezes, o rosto abrasava-se-lhe de sangue.

(Eça de Queirós. O crime do padre Amaro.)