Word: rifugio
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Rarely could a place have been so inaptly named. High on Mount Etna is a lodge for skiers and hikers called Rifugio Sapienza, or the Wisdom Refuge. Anyone with an ounce of wisdom wouldn't have built it on Europe's highest and most active volcano. Etna began blowing July 13, and last week burning lava came within just yards of the refuge and nearby stores...
...rumbles and smokes regularly but is a relatively friendly volcano, giving plenty of warning when it's about to blow. The damage, however, can still be severe. Since the start of this year's eruption, lava has destroyed a ski lift and a couple of summer homes, and threatened Rifugio Sapienza. Don't try to ski there next winter: the slopes will remain too warm to hold enough snow...
...volcano last week showed contempt for those trying to conquer its fireworks: it released a poisonous cloud that swept workers from its slopes, showered gray ash on the nearby town of Giarre and sent a new river of lava toward the Rifugio di Sapienza, a tourist shelter it had damaged earlier in the spring. Engineer Abersten, weary but unbowed, warned that another precision blast would be required to make the diversion an unqualified success. Said he: "I don't want to be defeated by Etna...
...delivery missive from Terracina, Italy. The official epistle stated that Yali, son of Angelo and Mafalda Yali of Terrachina, was born in East Boston. Yali made valuable gifts of books and money to what was then the Collegiate School in Saybrook, Conn. When the school was moved to Nuovo Rifugio, (New Haven) it was named for Yali...
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