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...ceremony kicked off 17 days of competition, running Feb. 10 through 26, in 15 sports. About 2,500 athletes from a record 80 countries will compete in Torino, which is the headquarters for Fiat and is sometimes called the Detroit of Italy. From the air, the city looks almost competely brown, although the surrounding Alps make for picturesque snapshots and television coverage. Torino, best known for the mysterious linen shroud that remains locked away in a cathedral here, has turned into one big street festival and in the afternoon, police motorcades with sirens blazing accompanied the arriving torch runners. After...
...Jesus after his crucifixion, fetched up in the Duomo di San Giovanni Battista. The city was reborn as the first capital of a united Italy in 1861 - though the capital soon shifted to Rome. During the 20th century, Torino was Detroit on the Po, the home of auto giant Fiat. The company brought modern production methods to Mussolini's Italy and after World War II helped fuel a flourishing middle class with its cheap and stylish small cars. Today, the city is known chiefly among sports fans as the home of Italy's perennial soccer powerhouse Juventus - which doesn...
...proud town was in need of a lift when it bid for the Winter Games in 1998. As the bulk of Fiat's production moved away, the once-elegant city feared it might share the rusting fate of American carmaking capitals. So in the past decade, Torino has worked to rebrand itself as a center of scientific research and high-tech industry, and as a dynamic cultural destination. It boasts an archeological museum that possesses more artifacts from ancient Egypt - including the sarcophagus of Nefertiti - than anywhere outside of Cairo. The city's symbol, the Mole Antonelliana, a dome-plus...
...groups compete with one another to influence campus opinion and—if possible—the world at large. The UC should leave political advocacy to these groups and let the debate play out in public discourse rather than proclaiming the view of a diverse student body by fiat. The UC’s comparative advantage as a student government lies in the realm of petitioning the administration on behalf of students and providing student services. It should confine itself to those areas where it has a clear role and can make a difference, instead of squandering its power...
...tanks with ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, which is one of two fuel options used in a new generation of Brazilian cars called Flex. The cars work like traditional vehicles but can run on either gasoline or ethanol derived from sugar cane--a commodity in abundance in Brazil. Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat and GM all produce Flex lines. In May sales of Flex vehicles overtook gasoline models for the first time. By August, Flex sales had risen 61.7%. "I am hard pressed to think of any other technology that has been such a success so quickly," says Barry Engle, president of Ford...