Word: enrico
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...According to Italian economists Enrico Moretti and Marco Manacorda, who have studied the phenomenon, the issue also comes down to culture. They've found that some Italian parents will actually pay their grown children not to move out. "Italians, unlike parents from most other countries," Moretti says, "like living with their grown children." Felici-Bach's experience with her Italian husband, though, is slightly different. Born and raised in Rome, he left home for good at 20. But, as it turns out, John Felici has an English mother...
...that averted a global hunger crisis, and he couldn't justify fiddling with molecules when a new Green Revolution was needed to avert a climate crisis. LBNL scientist Art Rosenfeld, Chu's mentor on energy issues, can relate: he was once a star particle physicist, the last student of Enrico Fermi's, but during the crisis of the 1970s, he reinvented himself as an energy-efficiency pioneer - and ended up developing much of the technology behind green buildings and those curlicued compact fluorescent lightbulbs. "The stakes are so high and the opportunities so vast," Rosenfeld explains...
...nuclear physicist who studied at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi, Cover worked as a contract scientist on NASA's Apollo moon program. It was during this period in the 1960s--an era of civil unrest, airplane hijackings and urban violence--that he began to ponder the need for a nonlethal weapon...
...Enrico Mentana, the most respected newsman on Berlusconi's Mediaset network, abruptly announced his resignation after company executives refused his request to cut into a reality television show following the death of Eluana Englaro, a comatose Udinese woman whose right-to-die case had riveted the nation. Almost immediately, Mediaset accused Mentana of striking a deal to go to Murdoch's All-News Italian station...
...incredibly light hands. I always order the pasta. It's Californian cuisine with touches of Italian. I ask for the pasta with caramel sauce. Finish the night by going to Tosca Café, tel: (1-415) 986 9651, in Nob Hill. Or, if it's Tuesday, I go to Enrico's, tel: (1-415) 982 6223, a little jazz club with a great cabaret show. If you're feeling more adventurous, go to Asia SF, tel: (1-415) 255 2742. The nightclub's waiters are all transgender youth, and they do an amazing show...