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Campinas, June 2001 - YEAR XV - N. 163.........
 
 
 

This photo from the Anglo-Australian Observatory shows the circular movement of the stars, recorded with a fixed camera and on high-sensitivity film. Astronomy laypeople will be able to learn, in this edition, how to identify stars and orient themselves by them, especially on these clear autumn/winter nights. It is an article by Romildo Faria, from the Dean of Extension and Community Affairs at Unicamp and coordinator of the Campinas Planetarium.

 


 

   

End-of-century injuries
Strain injuries
Repetitive (RSI/WMSD)
evolved to the point of becoming
one of the main diseases
occupational in the last two
decades. The attention aroused
in the 1st Health Week
Unicamp Occupational
shows that the disease, before
attributed to the “LERdeza” of the
worker finally
is approached seriously.

Land for the poor
The Cédula da Terra Program has already distributed approximately US$75 million to 7 poor families. Unicamp's Agricultural Economics Center (NEA) is coordinating an evaluation of the PCT.

Souza Cruz (who never smoked)
and their fatal muses

CDiscover the story of Albino Souza Cruz, who spread cigarettes in Brazil using portraits of women printed on the packs. He died at the age of 97, in 1966, a period in which the first studies on the evils of smoking appeared.

 
 
Baby Alexandre was born on May 11th, at the Center for Comprehensive Attention to Women's Health (Caism). She is one of 250 children brought into the world since the implementation of a program that adopted pioneering techniques in the treatment of women with a history of recurrent miscarriages, a tragedy that afflicts thousands of couples.


 

 


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