By PAUL SCAGLIA

The recent earthquake that struck Italy is a vivid example of the deadly consequences corruption in a government can have on a population. With a long history of earthquakes in her past, the Italian state failed to protect its citizens by enforcing anti-earthquake regulations that were passed by the government following the 1980 Naples [...]

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Combined from dispatches
 
A powerful earthquake struck a huge swathe of central Italy as residents slept on Monday morning, killing some 295 people when houses, churches and other buildings collapsed.
The dead were mainly in L’Aquila, a 13th century mountain city about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome that has a population of 68,000, and surrounding villages.
The Civil [...]

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By John Phillips in Buggerru, Sardinia
Once the mines of Sardinia were a byword for sweat and toil. Today, instead, they represent an extraordinary industrial heritage providing tourists and investors with a vast scientific and geological museum studded with tremendous examples of industrial architecture immersed in one of Europe’s most beautiful coastlines surrounded by the crystal [...]

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Work in progress

By COURTNEY WALSH
 
 

PIAZZE, Italy: In the end, we got much more than a dilapidated palazzo in southern Tuscany with a leaky roof and a defunct olive-oil mill on the ground floor.
 
We now have two new members of our “famiglia,” Giancarlo and Wanda, the brother and sister who owned the place. But our rapport, [...]

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By COURTNEY WALSH
 

PIAZZE, Italy:
In the end, we got much more than a dilapidated palazzo in southern Tuscany with a leaky roof and a defunct olive-oil mill on the ground floor.
 

We now have two new members of our “famiglia,” Giancarlo and Wanda, the brother and sister who owned the place. But our rapport, in particular with [...]

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