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Adventurous excursions aside, it was business as usual for Harvard, as the women took the field for exhibition contests against three Italian teams—ASD Mozzanica, ACF Firenze, and Cervia. The Crimson lost a hard-fought match to Cervia but picked up 2-1 wins against Mozzanica and Firenze...
...493rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron at Cervia, in northern Italy, has shot down four of the five Serbian MiG-29s killed so far. A lieutenant colonel, call sign "Rico," 40, scored one of those kills from his F-15C. "I was in the right place at the right time, and had a little luck," he says. "He ran into my missile." He had to wait for an AWACS to confirm that it was a foe before taking it on. "That all took about 20, 30 sec., but it seemed like it lasted an hour," he recalls. "Your hands, your eyes, your...
Died. Giovanni Guareschi, 60, Italy's most popular political humorist, whose tales of Don Camillo, a village priest forever at swordspoint with his Red mayor, gave readers throughout the world a taste of Communism, Italian style; of a heart attack; in Cervia, Italy. With gentle wit and nimble satire, in five novels, Guareschi illuminated a curiously Italian phenomenon-the Catholic who prays in church but pays his dues to the Party-all to the delight of readers in 16 languages...
...Theodoric, Bishop of Cervia, Italy, an unsung surgical hero of the Middle Ages, insisted that infection and formation of pus, contrary to popular medical opinion, was not necessary for successful healing of a wound. He insisted that wounds be kept clean and dry. So fellow practitioners-who continued for hundreds of years the practice of searing wounds with boiling oil, covering them with such things as bacon, earthworms, rabbit fur, oil of lilies and a boiled concoction of young whelps "just pupp'd"-denounced him as a heretic. Theodoric, says Dr. Graham, was "as great an original thinker...
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