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Water and Venice have always had a complicated relationship. The world's most famously wet city is also one of its most famously endangered ones, forever being flooded by its signature canals. Ever since the 14th century, Italian engineers have dreamed of ways to control the water. Now a solution may be at hand. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Venice Mayor Paola Costa attended a stone-laying ceremony in May to begin work on the long-delayed Moses project, a vast series of sea gates that may finally keep the sodden city...
...wants it, I'll make copies and give it to all of you." The first three volumes, which began to be released in 2000, have sold nearly 150,000 combined copies in France, and have won critical acclaim. The story has been translated into German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. The English edition came out in the U.S. last month and in the U.K. last week. Her timing was perfect. "I am part of the 'axis of evil,' you know," she likes...
...Silk Road. With the rise of the seafaring Phoenician trading empire, prosperity and power shifted toward the Mediterranean Sea. At different times, this led to the emergence of Alexandria, Athens, Carthage, Constantinople, Rome and Tyre. And in the 15th century, it culminated in the first centers of capitalism: the Italian trading cities of Florence, Genoa, Pisa and Venice. Eventually, those cities were also overtaken by other, often more fortuitously situated and therefore more prosperous burgs...
...real estate agent. When the cold war ended and Southern California's economy slumped, Warner moved to New Jersey and took a low-wage position as a shoe salesman. He worked hard, but the job didn't really pay off--until the day he fit a pair of black, Italian flats on the slender feet of Mary Del Guidice...
...Pisanu wants to reduce the influence of Arab and North African nations in Italy's Islamic community. "We want an Italian Islam," he told Time, "not an amalgam of mosques that operate as centers of prayer and political propaganda, and often depend on financing from foreign countries." Though most Islamic leaders back the initiative, Hamza Piccardo, a prominent Italian convert, is suspicious. "We would be coming from a position of weakness," he said. "There is no unifying voice, and our electoral weight is still not strong enough." That could position Pisanu as arguably the most powerful voice in Italy...