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Italian Purple People Protest Berlusconi the Bombastic
On a crisp, sunlit winter morning, Via Del Corso — the main street that cuts a straight line through the tangled alleys and piazzas of the historic center of Rome — has ground to a halt. Its two lanes...
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CSI: Pompeii
Ever since 19th-century archaeologists started making plaster casts of the fallen inhabitants of Pompeii, it has been assumed they died from suffocation as a thick layer of ash fell on the town...
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The Greatly Exaggerated Death of Multiculturalism
One immediate result of Arab revolutions in North Africa throws a monkey wrench into the “death of multiculturalism” rhetoric that has thrummed from European leaders almost like a heartbeat since last...
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The Heart of Demographic Doom
These days, a lot of places are dying. Varying degrees of demographic decline plagues the wealthiest countries. Projections for developing nations look dire, too. One of the gloomiest takes I read this...
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History Is Your DNA
For decades, scientists have turned to DNA to learn about our past, but their studies have been limited to eras much earlier than recorded history. Scientists have used genetics to mark the...
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Italy Is Dying
I have met my match. The best I can do, "Italy Is Dying." Beppe Severgnini brings a gun to a knife fight, "Italy: The Nation That Crushes Its Young." Delivering on a title's hyperbole: Italy is still...
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Mafias, Migrants, and a New Kind of Graft
Almost inevitably, the arrival of a large body of new immigrants spawns fear among the established population of these new people’s uniquely organized criminal propensities. Think back to Gangs of New...
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Double Jeopardy Isn’t What You Think It Is—and It Won’t Save Amanda Knox
The murder is one of the most infamous in recent memory: In 2007 Brit Meredith Kercher, a college student studying abroad in Italy, was found dead in her house in Perugia after her American roommate...
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How Italian Will Italy Be After the World Cup?
On May 3, 2014, before the kick-off of the Italian Cup Final between ACF Fiorentina and SSC Napoli at Rome’s Olympic Stadium, a substantial number of the 60,000 fans present drowned out the Italian...
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