Word: grimaldi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dealing has not been seen since the 1980s. "Even years down the road, we shall look back on the first quarter of 1999 as the turning point in Italian finance, when we started on the road to change and moved much closer to the American model," says Giovanni Grimaldi, fund manager at investment company Primegest in Milan...
...less Italian over the years, but New York's oldest pizzeria shows no signs of flagging. Located near the upper end of Mulberry Street, where the feel is more neighborhood and less theme park, Lombardi's serves the best pizza in the city (a close runner-up is Patsy Grimaldi's, just under the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge). For $12.50, a large basic pie (mozzarella, cheese, basil) feeds two. If the weather's warm enough, ask to sit on the roof...
BORN. To capricious princess of Monaco STEPHANIE GRIMALDI, 33; a girl, Camille Marie Kelly; in Monaco. Stephanie, who has two other children and is divorced, has not revealed the father's identity...
...insects might have been its target, the resin would also trap anything else that happened to stumble into it, including small lizards and frogs. Bad luck for them, but extraordinary good fortune for evolutionary biologists. In one major deposit--a site in New Jersey whose location is closely guarded--Grimaldi and a team of volunteers have found nearly 100 previously unknown ancient species of plants and animals. These and other discoveries around the world have given scientists some important insights into the workings of natural selection--how, for example, insects and flowers helped guide each other's evolution...
...scientists, a piece of amber with nothing trapped inside is not so exciting. For artists and their patrons, however, it is an uncut gem. According to Grimaldi, Stone Age artisans used amber found on beaches of the Baltic Sea 10,000 years ago to carve amulets, pendants and tiny figurines. Indeed, Baltic deposits were Western civilization's primary source of amber at least as far back...