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...daughter of Thomas D'Alesandro, a former congressman and mayor of Baltimore, Pelosi's approach is often compared to his old-school Italian style of patronage. After all, as a child, she was often tasked with maintaining her father's "favors" list. But, while there is a certain degree of ring-kissing that still goes on on Capitol Hill, the Speaker is actually more like her mother, says Tommy D'Alesandro, Pelosi's brother and another former mayor of Baltimore. "You could cross my father, lie to him, oppose him," D'Alesandro says. "But our mother - you couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Her Way: Pelosi's Powers of Persuasion | 3/20/2010 | See Source »

...book, some friends of mine said, "You wear black. What do you need to know? This is the book." And yes, you can wear black, but it's so obvious. I have one friend who only wears black. She goes to the beach, and she looks like an Italian widow in mourning - she wears a black long-sleeve shirt and black pants. I mean, it's ridiculous. In the summer, you want to lighten up. You want to enjoy the season. You want to wear pink and white, so I think that just a closet full of black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Never Look Fat Again — Without Dieting | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...Some E.U. member states and anti-GM campaigners remain unconvinced. Austria said it would outlaw growing the potato, and Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia said he planned to "defend and safeguard traditional agriculture and citizens' health." The environmental group Greenpeace said the GM potato contains a gene that confers resistance to certain antibiotics. "It could raise bacterial resistance to life-saving medicines, including drugs used for the treatment of tuberculosis," says Greenpeace E.U. agriculture policy director Marco Contiero. "This is an unacceptable risk to human and animal health as well as to the environment." (See the top 10 green stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Europe Finally Ready for Genetically Modified Foods? | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...back as the 1980s, some roasters, like David Dallis of Dallis Coffee, were seeking to import beans from single farms, roasting them less rather than more and generally doing the things that separate this movement from its Seattle-based progenitors in the '70s. (See pictures of Italian coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Stumptown the New Starbucks — or Better? | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...half Italian,” says Wideroff. “I have family in Bologna and I think in Milan. I have two cousins Mario and Luigi who live over there. I’m not kidding,” she adds. “Hopefully I’ll get together with them...

Author: By Natalie duP. C. Panno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Making the Traveling Team | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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