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...Golden Gates" won't find any Orientalist exotica among the installations, paintings and other pieces by 18 contemporary artists from across the Middle East and Iran. In fact, "I refuse to work with artists that deal in exoticism" is the proud boast of the show's creator Daniela da Prato. Too often, she says, the market shapes nascent art movements to meet Western tastes (the Chinese avant-garde is a case in point). "Golden Gates," she says, features emerging artists that have "not yet been contaminated by the art market." (See Time.com/Travel for city guides, stories and advice...
...this case, the single horn on the Italian deer found at a wildlife preserve in the town of Prato, outside of Florence, is attributed to a genetic mutation, but its discoverers aren't ruling out the possibility that other creatures with similar abnormalities could have been spotted throughout history, and contributed to the persistent unicorn legend. Whatever the present-day implications of this discovery, however, historically speaking, scientific evidence has seldom played a role when it comes to believing in unicorns...
...closer than ever to bankruptcy. On Thursday evening, the Milan stock exchange announced that Alitalia shares will be suspended until April 8, following the public company's next board meeting. The failure of talks with Air France, also prompted yet another resignation at the top, as Alitalia chairman Maurizio Prato stepped down just seven months after taking over the troubled air carrier with the goal of facilitating its sale. Now, nothing is likely to move until after Italy's April 13-14 national elections...
...Still, the plan hammered out by Maurizio Prato, Alitalia's third chairman in the past year, may contain a corporate logic that goes beyond all the apparent wheel-spinning. The company, no one doubts, must be sold. The 5,000-pound vulture in the room is named Air France-KLM, which sat out this past year's round of bidding. Alitalia's initial cuts (modest as they are) to both personnel and fleet, its search for some hanging-on cash, and above all its shifting its hub southward all make it a more attractive regional partner for Air France following...
...easy and simple to face that change in our life, but we must accept it without falling into depression. It is true that with therapy and medical help things can really change and we can look at life through different eyes. Adriana Giacomini Donato Colloredo di Prato, Italy...