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...this traditionally left-leaning city. Last week, Fini demanded "more democracy" within the center-right coalition and lashed out at Berlusconi's family newspaper, Il Giornale, for accusing him of drifting leftward. "Enough already. It's time for a new approach," Fini told reporters in the central city of Gubbio. "I won't renounce my ideas, and I say 'No' to groupthink." And just on Monday, Sept. 14, Fini said he was considering a lawsuit against Il Giornale for an article that referred to his links to a "red light" scandal in 2000. (Read "Berlusconi and the Girl: No Spice...
...revolution began with an unassuming element known as iridium, a rare and hard silvery-white metal related to platinum and gold. In the spring of 1977, Geologist Walter Alvarez of the University of California, Berkeley, was carefully chiseling through the rocks outside Gubbio, a medieval Italian town halfway between Florence and Rome, seeking clues to continental drift. Gubbio has long been an appealing site to geologists and paleontologists because its rocks provide a complete geological record of the critical boundary line between the end of the Cretaceous period, when the dinosaurs disappeared, and the Tertiary period, which followed...
...abruptly 65 million years ago, they left an enduring mystery-and created a scientific parlor game. Hypotheses abound to explain the extinction. Brains too small in bodies too large? Emerging mammals feasting on dinosaur eggs? Now comes evidence for another possibility. Geologist Walter Alvarez, probing an ocean canyon near Gubbio, Italy, discovered an abrupt increase in iridium in a limestone layer dating back to the dinosaurs' demise. Probable cause: some mysterious, still unfathomable extraterrestrial event...
...statue was dragged off a sandy seabed in the nets of surprised fishermen from the Italian port of Fano in 1963. A wily antique dealer and his two cousins from the nearby town of Gubbio bought it for $5,500, then kept it in a local priest's house, as they tried to peddle it secretly to European art dealers for $200,000. A Roman antique dealer tipped Italian officials off to the statue's existence. But when police raided the priest's house in 1964, the bronze was gone. In a lengthy court fight, the priest...
News of the purchase renewed Italian ire at the loss of yet another art masterpiece to the U.S. Sergio Matteini Chiari, a magistrate in Gubbio, filed a charge of clandestine export of an artwork against "unknown persons." Until he can fill in the names, however, the action has little force. Higher Italian officials are considering more effective moves, including complaints to Washington...