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Italian Prime Minister Silvo Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch were always considered friendly rivals. They have even spent time together at Berlusconi's Sardinian villa. But the competition may be heating up. The Mediaset TV network, owned by the Berlusconi family, is taking direct aim at Murdoch's Sky Italia with an innovative attempt at poaching lucrative soccer viewers. As the world's first free TV network to offer pay-per-view sporting events, Mediaset surprised Murdoch & Co., whose satellite rights until recently meant an exclusive on top-flight matches. "We bought the whole cake, which has now become just...
Oldsters in Sardinia, another wellspring of longevity, have many similarities to their Okinawan counterparts--except that the Sardinian ratio of centenarians is about equal for men and women (in most societies, 100-plus females outnumber males by 3 or 4 to 1). They maintain very active lives and powerful social networks; extended family and friends are available to share troubles and take some of the emotional burden out of life. Says researcher Gianni Pes, part of a team from Sardinia's University of Sassari, which is studying the group: "The 100-year-olds are less depressed than average 60-year...
Speak, Stone begins with a haunting chant-like melody as the camera of Jacob Richman ’03 pans from an ancient Italian cityscape to a single stone, clothesline and church. Richman’s video, the product of a summer spent researching Sardinian folk singing, is a meditation on harmony. And harmony exists on many levels in the short, pastoral video...
Richman, a senior joint concentrator in music and visual and environmental studies, showcases the Sardinian folk sound. Sung only by men of the town of Bitti, the music is a mixture of throaty and nasal sounds. “It is quite possibly the oldest type of polyphony,” says Richman, who was introduced to the music and was then able to research it directly in Italy through a Radcliffe research grant...
...genes." That same logic--and the same propensity for long life in nearby towns--was what prompted Deiana, with his team of 25 Italian doctors and biologists, to launch a sweeping genetic study of every 100-plus person across the entire island. "You look at a Sardinian phone book, and you see there are relatively few last names," says Deiana, a researcher at the University of Sassari in northwest Sardinia. His project, which is partly funded by Duke University, is dubbed A Kent'Annos after an old Sardinian salute meaning "May you live to be 100." (The traditional reply...