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Others were already asking the same question. Friday's edition of the La Repubblica daily featured a spot (and certainly preliminary) probe into the collapse of a six-story apartment building in L'Aquila that crumbled to the ground, killing 26 of its 75 residents. A seemingly identical building right...
Seismic tests and architectural retrofitting standards are by now accepted practices in the developed world. Italy, a G-8 country - and host of the next summit of industrialized countries, in July - has been exposed before for lagging behind on antiseismic safety. In 2002 an earthquake that registered just 5.5 on...
6 | Italy ON DEADLY GROUND Before dawn on April 6, a devastating earthquake rocked the city of L'Aquila, about 60 miles (95 km) east of Rome, killing at least 260 people. With more than 10,000 buildings damaged or destroyed, some 28,000 people were left homeless--many of...
It's hard to fight an epidemic when no one wants to talk about the cause. In China, a country whose last decade has been defined by economic growth and social opening, silence still enshrouds many aspects of the nations' sex life, and not, health experts say, without consequences. While...
Why Jobs Are a Strategy Too Long before the U.S. arrived in Afghanistan, the Korengal was relatively rich. It wasn't farming that sustained the area's residents; the rocky hillsides grow few crops. But a lucrative trade in the region's cedar forests funded satellite-TV dishes and fancy...