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...established him as a writer with global appeal. Severgnini, a fan of contradiction, prefers the term "provincial international." In La Bella Figura, Severgnini's third book to be exported from the Italian peninsula, his propensity for contradiction has found ample room. "Italy," he writes, "is the only workshop in the world that could turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis." And one into which outsiders enter at their peril. "Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing," warns the writer. In Botticelli, who strove "to reconcile Plato and Christ in a representation of the beauty that derives from...
Every July the country's leading disaster scientists and emergency planners gather in Boulder, Colo., for an invitation-only workshop. Picture 440 people obsessed with the tragic and the safe, people who get excited about earthquake "shake maps" and righteous about flood insurance. It's a spirited but wonky crowd that is growing more melancholy every year...
...that apparently lies beyond our grasp is to prepare for them. Dennis Mileti ran the Natural Hazards Center for 10 years, and is the country's leading expert on how to warn people so that they will pay attention. Today he is semiretired, but he comes back to the workshop each year to preach his gospel. This July, standing before the crowd in a Hawaiian shirt, Mileti was direct: "How many citizens must die? How many people do you need to see pounding through their roofs?" Like most people there, Mileti was heartbroken by Katrina, and he knows...
...close of the Boulder workshop this year, Kathleen Tierney, head of the Natural Hazards Center, stood up to say, "We as human societies have yet to understand ... that nature doesn't care. And for that reason, we must care." She was quoting herself intentionally. She had said the same thing the year before, seven weeks before Katrina. As she spoke, her voice rose: "Here we stand one year later. Where is the political will to protect lives and property...
...workshop on style and image where I took the students shopping and showed them how to choose outfits to perform...