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...holiday in nearby Corsica. We just can't afford it anymore. And compared with one-income families, we are quite well off. Is it so difficult to understand that the tremendous price increase of everyday items along with a yearlong stagnation in payrolls leads to empty wallets? Bettina Klein,Pisa, Italy...
...industrial stretch of flatlands east of Pisa, Cascina is hardly the postcard Italy of undulating olive groves. With an auto-parts store behind the cemetery and the stripped face of a gravel mine in the distance, the burial service last week somehow seemed more Texan than Tuscan. Summers was wearing a pink Wrangler cowboy shirt and black pants inside the closed white coffin now pulled beside the back of the black Mercedes hearse...
...famous anecdote, Galileo Galilei clambered to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, simultaneously dropped cannonballs of different sizes and found that they all hit the ground at the same time. He thus convinced the world--and in the years to come, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein as well--that in a vacuum all objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same speed. Galileo's work went unchallenged until last week, when Purdue University Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach, three of his graduate students and S.H. Aronson, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, reported discerning...
Aside from a somewhat shaky performance from Rumanian-born Soprano Ileana Cotrubas, who sings Magda, the Lyric's handsome, glittering production is cast with young Americans. Originally presented in 1981 at Pisa's Teatro Comunale G. Verdi, it is directed by Giulio Chazalettes, who might have made more of Rondine's disillusioned subtext and in so doing brought out its richer texture. But as performers gradually realize the opera's possibilities, harder-edged interpretations will no doubt follow...
...second-guessing about the event could go on for months. Meanwhile, the danger from Nevado del Ruiz may still be far from over. Says the University of Pisa's Barberi: "Other explosions are certain to take place. It may be that the phenomena will be of minor intensity, but they will be equally dangerous." For one thing, he asserts, the large glaciers that surround the crater of Nevado del Ruiz have still not been warmed by the eruptions. If those rivers of ice should melt, they would create additional mud avalanches that would place rescuers in serious danger...