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...people, is less than one. Moreover, Guariniello says, there are reports of at least another 20-plus previously unrecorded examples, including Signorini's. In February another former Serie A player, Adriano Lombardi, announced he has ALS. And last month, Ubaldo Nanni, who played for third-division Pisa, died at 44 after three years with the illness. There is ALSo concern in England, where the governing Football Association is probing the ALS deaths of several former players, including Don Revie, active from the 1940s to the early '60s, and Willie Maddren, whose injury-marred career ended in 1977. Belinda Cupid, research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer's Side Effect | 4/27/2003 | See Source »

...half-hour later Dan and Alisha and their new DVDs are compressed into a Volkswagen Santana taxi, bound for the condo that the Sharks have leased for them in a complex of rococo pink high-rises that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa dipped in grenadine syrup. "You!" Dan commands, using Mandarin for "turn right." Then, after passing through the gates, he says, "Ting!" which means "halt." The driver lets them out in front of a fountain topped by a plaster nymph with breasts the size of cantaloupes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Ming | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

Each week our graphics team weaves art and words with such skill and clarity that engineers could almost use their images to raise a sunken sub or keep the Tower of Pisa from falling. This year TIME has won eight Malofiej Infographics Awards, including a rare Gold prize for "Raising the Kursk." The Society for News Design, which gives the prizes, cited chief Jackson Dykman and his staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: May 13, 2002 | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...Pavarotti drank the Trevi fountain b) Mount Etna erupted c) Roberto Benigni won't let go of the Tower of Pisa d) Coliseum ticket takers can't bear to hear "Strength and honor!" anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Aug. 13, 2001 | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...pretending to prop up Pisa's leaning tower b) the Washington Monument never lets her do this in public c) she thought, "To my daughter Jenna, this tower isn't leaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jul. 30, 2001 | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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