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Riders' protective gear is nearly as sophisticated. Body armor once used mainly for dirt-track motorcycle racing has become fashionable among mountain bikers. A $500 body suit from the Italian designer Dainese features protection from the shoulders to the shins, with an aluminum "honeycomb inner structure" to help dissipate body heat...
...HAND: OPERAS COMPOSED BY WOMEN, 1625-1939. This exhibit focuses on the contributions of women through the development of opera. It follows the origins of Italian opera in the courts of Versailles in the 17th century to public opera in post-revolutionary Paris and beyond. For music lovers and history buffs alike. Through Dec. 1, 2003. Loeb Music Library, Music Building...
...SEEMS THAT AT LEAST A PART OF THE DISPUTED EVIDENCE ACCUSING SADDAM HUSSEIN OF SEEKING URANIUM IN NIGER ORIGINATED WITH THE ITALIAN SECRET SERVICE. WAS THERE POLITICAL PRESSURE TO FIND PROOF OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION...
...services common around the globe. That fiber is fast enough to deliver movies without any hiccups, and to send songs in seconds rather than minutes. Scaglia and his company, e.Biscom, are funneling feature films and sitcoms--plus conventional Web and phone services--to PCs and TVs in six major Italian cities. Born during the late-'90s Internet boom, e.Biscom is on a steady growth path in a cooled-down economy. "The idea is to create a network with no bandwidth limitation," says Scaglia...
Fiber networks, notes analyst Michael Philpott of London research firm Ovum, are "future proof," meaning it's hard to imagine anything coming along that's faster. Scaglia, a telecommunications engineer and ex-CEO of Italian mobile-phone operator Omnitel, co-founded e.Biscom with Italian financier Francesco Micheli in 1999. A public stock offering in March 2000 raised $1.5 billion. The company now has about 145,000 fiber customers who connect through e.Biscom's FastWeb service, plus an additional 100,000 who access FastWeb's souped-up DSL service. While 145,000 fiber customers might not sound like...