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80% Italian trash dumped into landfills 15.0% trash recycling rate (est.) 40 million tons trash illegally dumped 1 literary trash contest Stereotypes would have silver-tongued Italians capable of waxing poetic about anything, but a literary contest on the subject of trash will perhaps put them to the test. For the second year in a row [...]
La Perla Bikini Preview ? Celebrating Father’s Day, Italian Style ? Alex Britti’s Hot Pop ? Italian practice: Ask the Oracle La Perla Bikini Preview Think Farrah Fawcett, on the scrawny side — the big fluffy do’s are the perfect complement to these oh-so-1970s string bikinis, presented in Milan for the upcoming sunny season…Not for [...]
Young visitors to Turin’s famed Egyptian museum seemed to be possessed by evil spirits — sneezing, fainting, vomiting and a general malaise overtook them as they admired the sarcophagi. ESP experts volunteered to ‘clean out’ the karma of the museum, Egyptologists mused about a curse of the pharaohs and skeptics thought the cause might be [...]
Sicilian fishermen, concerned over the number of dolphins captured in nets, turned to Italy’s National Research Council (CNR) to find a solution. After three years of research, which tapped the expertise of scientists throughout Europe, the result is a whistle that acts as a deterrent but doesn’t harm the animals. Called EMMA (Electroacoustic prototype for [...]
26.6% Italians smoke 14.7 average number of cigarettes smoked daily 12% of Italian restaurants, bars, cafés enforce no-smoking rules 2 recent incidents that show Italians are fed up with smokers Typically a country where anti-smoking measures are ignored, if not flaunted, it seems Italians may have finally had enough smoke in their eyes. Though Italian [...]
Vrroom: the New Vespa ? San Remo Songfest ? send Italian ecards for Women’s day ? Italian practice: sleazy true confessions
The Italian town of Sormano, about an hour from Milan, will soon wake again to the now controversial sound of church bells thanks to the generous donation of a 90-year-old grandmother. Whether the 650 or so inhabitants of Sormano will be grateful for the gift is perhaps another matter. Maria Mazza, born and raised in [...]
