quarta-feira, maio 19, 2004

Altos e baixos

A informação na TSF continua rigorosa. A coisa chegou a tal ponto que as pessoas que a "fazem" já nem se dão ao trabalho de se ouvirem umas às outras.

Ontem, no noticiário creio que das nove da manhã, um senhor dizia que "o preço do petróleo mantêm-se acima dos 41 dólares por barril".

Apenas minutos antes, directamente da Bolsa de Lisboa, uma senhora informava-nos de que o barril de Brendt se negociava em Londres a trinta e sete dólares e picos o barril...
# Lançado por PSA às 6:09:00 da manhã
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)