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O "Economist" de 6 de Novembro trás (na parte de acesso por assinatura) um interessante artigo sobre a "privatização" do Serviço de Parques americano. Os que puderem, leiam e reparem nas semelhanças e diferenças com o que se passa em Portugal. Para os outros, deixo os períodos finais da peça: The professionals involved ... —including historians, architects, cultural anthropologists and archaeologists—generally earn less in the Park Service than their counterparts in the private sector. They are also willing, as the private sector rarely is, to work for love. Many a Park Service scholar has wielded a lavatory brush in the service of culture. “We are here to protect the national patrimony,” says the South-East Archaeological Centre's manager, “and to turn that into something that's for-profit-based would be the death-knell for the Park Service.”