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		<title>The U.S. health care system</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public debate over reform of the U.S. health care system has sparked interest across the Atlantic, partly because the U.S. is such a large country, partly because reforms in and experiments with the U.S. system are likely to have repercussions in the European systems as well (like the U.S., European systems are subject to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luiscabral.wordpress.com&blog=239603&post=336&subd=luiscabral&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natal &#8220;esterilizado&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chegámos àquele momento do ano em que os sentimentos de correcção política vêm mais à superfície.  Nas empresas, nos lugares públicos, nos cartões de boas festas, as referências natalícias são cada vez menos frequentes.  Não porque as pessoas não sejam cristãs ou não se reconheçam na celebração do nascimento de Jesus.  Não: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luiscabral.wordpress.com&blog=239603&post=346&subd=luiscabral&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debate entre cientistas “aquece”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nos últimos dias, os media pelo mundo fora trouxeram-nos notícias do “climategate”: a descoberta de emails (entretanto reconhecidos como autênticos) “roubados” ao Climate Research Unit da University of East Anglia, mensagens que reflectem as “maquinações” de parte da comunidade científica para resolver o “problema” dos cépticos em relação à questão do aquecimento global.
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		<title>A Comissão Stiglitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pedido do presidente Sarkozy, a “Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress,” chefiada por Joe Stiglitz, publicou recentemente o seu muito antecipado relatório.  Como se esperava, são criticadas as medidas tradicionais baseadas no PIB, por ser muito incompletas.  
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		<title>Crise económica e crise moral</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pelos padrões macroecómicos habituais (crescimento do PIB, desemprego, etc), atravessamos uma crise grave, mas não ao nível da depressão dos anos 30, nem mesmo da “stagflation” dos anos 70.  Muitos que há 10 ou 12 meses desenhavam cenários apocalípticos reconhecem agora que afinal a economia e os mercados e o mundo continuarão existindo.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luiscabral.wordpress.com&blog=239603&post=339&subd=luiscabral&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Porto-Belenenses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Belenenses empata tetra-campeão&#8221;, reza o título no Jornal a Bola.  Mais um caso de enviezamento dos media.  Porque não dizer antes que &#8220;Porto empata campeão de 1945&#8243;?
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		<title>Entrevista sobre Caritas in Veritate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texto de uma entrevista sobre a recente encíclica de Bento XVI. 
- Num texto de opinião no jornal ‘página1’, da Rádio Renascença, escreveu que a encíclica ‘Caritas in veritate’ é “um documento que, indiscutivelmente, virá a ser reconhecido como um marco histórico”. Porquê esta afirmação?
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		<title>A Nobel proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For potential Nobel recipients, the first weeks of October are a difficult time.  It&#8217;s not just the uncertainty of it: you must also stay up or be woken up from your sleep by the proverbial call from Sweden.  Of course, this is only true if you live in the US.  But the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luiscabral.wordpress.com&blog=239603&post=330&subd=luiscabral&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meritocracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine Tiger Woods playing as a forward for Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo challenging chess Grand Masters, and Gary Kasparov trying out on the PGA tour.  I may be unaware of some hidden talents, but I suspect the results would be disastrous.  
There is a limited amount of talent in the world, and it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=luiscabral.wordpress.com&blog=239603&post=323&subd=luiscabral&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duxbury, Massachusetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Duxubury, MA, marsh (2009).  Watercolor on paper (9&#215;12in approx).
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