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...Navy Seals' mission is simple, if next to impossible: rescue an Italian doctor from a Roman Catholic outpost in the besieged jungle of Nigeria. Just the doctor, none of the African patients. But even a tough guy like Lieut. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) can't resist a plea to take the wounded on a perilous trek--because the doctor is idealistic, the doctor is passionate, and the doctor is played by Monica Bellucci...
...back as the 13th century, Italian city-states guarded their cultural artifacts as carefully as they did their borders. Some 800 years later, in the unified nation that claims Michelangelo and Titian as part of its heritage, that legacy still has power. From masterpieces hanging in museums to precious works held in private collections - whose owners cannot so much as move a painting without official approval - almost all of Italy's treasures are jealously protected by the state. Culture, says Salvatore Settis, an Italian professor of art history and classical archaeology, "holds a historic memory that belongs to the citizens...
ATHENA member Alessandro Variola, a scientist from the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), says that such borrowing of techniques from other scientists is a natural and necessary component of scientific progress. “You can mix a huge amount of…different experiences, different techniques. You must be careful to choose the techniques that allow you the best [results],” he says. “And surely, some of the techniques of Dr. Gabrielse were useful...
Minutes apart that George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein recently ordered the same pair of $975 shoes from the Italian designer Vito Artioli...
...DIED. ALBERTO SORDI, 82, legendary comic actor who personified the postwar Italian male, with all his vices and virtues, during a career that spanned more than 50 years; in Rome. Known to Italians as "Big Alberto," Sordi often played an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. He appeared in more than 160 films, although he is best known internationally for his role in the 1965 adventure-comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...