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		<title>Yum? Milan Designer Creates Wearable Tortellini</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Milan designer Anna Lodi has crafted a tortellini-shaped jewelry line. She made the pasta-shaped earrings and pins from glass mosaic &#8212; interestingly called &#8220;pasta vetro&#8221; in Italian. Lodi says each piece is made by hand in the same way the tortellini that ends up on your plate does, so all are unique. While Lodi&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pompeian red? It&#8217;s actually ochre, researchers say</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those rich reds adorning paintings in Pompeii were originally ochre &#8211;  Italian researchers say they now think that sensuous Pompeian red is the result of an accident. Researchers at the national science council (CNR) say the original signature color at the ill-fated city of Pompeii was probably yellow -  ochre to be specific. Before Mount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got a buck? Help out real-life Da Vinci Code quest for lost Leonardo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just about as cheap a thrill as they get: by pledging even just a dollar, you can help fund a project to find a lost Leonardo Da Vinci fresco in Florence, Italy. Photographer Dave Yoder has been working on for a number of years  on a quest funded by the National Geographic Society [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out Soundtracker, like Pandora for Italian music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who has a hard time remembering what it was like to listen to music before you could hit &#8220;shuffle&#8221; or curate a digital playlist, I&#8217;m a big fan of automated music recommendation and Internet radio service Pandora. But that streaming service offers almost no Italian music, whether you want classic folk, pop power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a toe provide the answer to Mona Lisa mystery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experts digging around a former convent in Florence have unearthed a big toe that might belong to Lisa Gherardini, the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci&#8217;s famed Mona Lisa painting. Little is known about the real life of the noblewoman said to have posed for Da Vinci, but she is thought to have died in the [...]]]></description>
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