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...about Italy's social topography: the north is efficient and prosperous, the south beset by poverty, mobsters and bad governance. But it was never that simple, as Amendolara demonstrates. This generally well-run coastal town is in the most troubled southern region of all: Calabria, the toe of the Italian boot, where the baleful influence of the crime syndicate 'Ndrangheta is pervasive, the infrastructure is dismal, and the unemployment rate is 13% - double the national average. Amendolara partakes of some of that woe - it's still underdeveloped and isolated - but not all of it. The mob holds no sway here...
...Italians are heading to the polls on April 13-14 to choose a new Prime Minister, following the premature collapse of Romano Prodi's center-left government in January. The race between former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni comes at one of the lowest moments in post-war Italian history. With the country locked in a vicious cycle of public cynicism and economic malaise, the election does not bode well. Many pundits think the best-case scenario might be a failure by both Berlusconi and Veltroni to win a ruling majority - an outcome that would...
...often, Italian politicians have addressed the south as an isolated regional problem: some say too much public money is frittered away there, while others say the 14 million southerners among Italy's population of 59 million need more support. That's all beside the point, says Domenico Cersosimo, an economics professor at the University of Calabria. "We shouldn't see this as a country divided in two," he says. "The maladies of the Mezzogiorno are the maladies of Italy. It's just a question of degree: what is gray in Italy is black in the south." Indeed, entrenched nationwide ills...
...long infiltrated the waste-disposal business. The government's failure to confront the situation erupted in December, and the burning garbage may have tainted more than Italy's image. The trash emergency may be linked to elevated toxin levels in the Naples region's famous buffalo-milk mozzarella. Italian health officials have recently been forced to check hundreds of factories that produce the cheese after South Korea and Japan temporarily banned imports and the E.U. threatened to do the same...
...decision to use up eligibility in an extra year may appear to be a win-win situation—Pizzotti will have the opportunity to lead his team to another Ivy League title, Mazza’s super-senior season landed him a job in the Italian Football League with the Parma Panthers, and Lofgren will undoubtedly give her team an edge over the competition after being part of such a rigorous training regimen...