Word: mediterraneo
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...press release from the American Heart Association meeting, lead author Dr. Speranza Rubatu, from the Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology at La Sapienza University, Rome, and Instituto Neurologico Mediterraneo, Neuromed, at Pozzilli, Italy, says, "We believe that this is an important finding toward the development of a more comprehensive way of assessing a person's overall risk of developing a stroke. The identification of genes and their molecular variants that contribute to strokes help us diagnose the risk earlier and suggest lifestyle modifications or develop new medicines to reduce the overall risk of stroke...
ITALIAN SOLDIERS, ORDERED TO OCCUPY a remote Greek island during World War II, find that all its male residents of fighting age have been interned elsewhere. They pass the war eating, snoozing and making out with the local ladies. The comedy in MEDITERRANEO is as languorous as the climate, and its point -- that most of the world's troubles arise when people are up and doing -- is agreeable if facile. The only stirring aspect of this slack, predictable movie is the fact that it won this year's foreign-film Oscar. There is something wrong with a system that rewards...