stories from cuba

inside - A relation with a wonderful gerl, who went to Germany for two years,last october. I loved her so much that I hurted myself. When she leave my live, I understood that love is more that fall in love to someone. And now, I having an excelent time in my life.
outside - Last october, a terrible hurricane named Lili destroyed my family's town, in Villa Clara. They loose every thing: house, animals, harvest (tobacco and coin) and now they are in a very hard economical position.
future - Without ozone protection, without clean seas, without woods, with the so hard economical and public health situation in the so named Third World Countries. Will be there life 100 years from now? Remenber: Nature do not forgive.

Mauricio Alvarez <maury@ict.sld.cu>
Havana, Cuba - Wednesday, January 15, 1997 at 10:36:05 (GMT)


inside - In the last two years, I have found a lot of new experiences in my life. First the research project that is going on in my lab related to the radiolabeling of monoclonal antibodies with radioisotopes for diagnostic purposes and most recently the idea of radiolabel monoclonal antibodies with beta radioisotopes for the treatment of some malignancies like neuroblastomas, gliomas and breast tumors and also colorectal tumors. This is a very good thing for me because the science is going to the right place in the treatment of some malignancises which until now do not have cure at all. I think that this is a very good, encorage and promising project for the future.
outside - Two months ago passed over our Island the hurricaine Lyly. This was a very strong hurricaine. We had a lot of plantations, more than 20 000 of houses totally destroyed and more than 1000 million of US dollars in economical lost. This affected me very much, because this year for the first time in more than 5 years the economical balance of the country was positive, and the growth of the national production was about 7.2 %.
future - Next century will be the century of telematica, bioinformatica and biorobotica. This mean the development of information means, INTERNET, communication online through the computers with video included, biosensors, ships which can simulate the structure of the human brain, more power virtual reality and so on.

Normando E. Iznaga Escobar <normando@ict.sld.cu>
Havana, Cuba - Friday, January 03, 1997 at 14:14:55 (GMT)


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