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• Anno scolastico 2004 2005
• Prof. Enrica Puppo

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INDEX
INDEX
IRENE ARVIGO 3 DEHYDRATION 4 EASTER
GIFTS 5 DRINKING DANGER 6 ROSES ST.
VALENTINES DAY MARTA BISSO 7 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TO THE RADIO LAURA BOBBIO 8 WARM IS COMING
FEDERICA CARRARO 9 AN INCREDIBLE
FINDING GIORGIA CASELLA 10 CHILDREN SUE THEIR
PARENTS GIULIA CIOCCA 11 BLACK HOLES 12
CRINOIDS AMBIENT SENTRIES 13 GREY
WHALES VALENTINA CONTI 14 A NEW POPE MOBILE 15
A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS 16 A WHALE FOR THE XI
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 17 CORK, EUROPEAN CULTURE
CAPITAL 18 SHARKS SLAUGHTER IN THE
GALAPAGOS GIULIA DE PAOLIS 19 MORE PIRATES
ATTACKS NICOLE FERRARI 20 TAI PEI 101 21
TRAGEDY IN TOKIO 22 THE POPULATION ON THE EARTH
SILVIA GATTI 23 MODERN BALLAD SINGERS 24 UFO
AND SCIENCE 25 A THOUSAND ONE NIGHT 26
GENETICALLY MODIFIED CATS 27 THE PORTABLE DOG 28
ANNA KONDA 29 A MARS SHARE ON THE
EARTH VALERIA OLIVARI 30 GREAT BRITAIN
CELEBRATES ITS SEA 31 MOBILE PHONES ARE NOT
DANGEROUS VALENTINA OLIVERI 32 CALIPARI S
CASE IS STILL OPEN ZAIRA PAPARELLA 33 A LITTLE
GENIUS COMMITS SUICIDE 34 A MOTORBIKE
ACCIDENT LUCREZIA RINALDI 35 THE AVIATOR 36
HIV VACCINE 37 OGM 38 GREEN DAY 39 SYSTEM
OF A DOWN 40 KURT COBAIN S LAST DAYS ILARIA
ROSSI 41 CAN EYES REVEAL THE MURDER S
IDENTITY 42 A MASSACRE IN MINNESOTA 43
STRANGE BOMB-DISPOSAL EXPERT 44 TUTANKHAMON HAS
A FACE
JESSICA PAOLA SALCESI 45 FEWER BIRTHS ALESSIA
SCHIRRU 46 CARONIA THE TOWN OF MYSTERIES 47
ROMANENGO 48 PIANO MAN 49 THE
PIPER VERONICA SIRI 50 ARRESTED IN EGYPT THE
ORGANIZERS OF THE MASSACRE 51
CHILDREN AMONG FLAMES 52 BRIDGET JONES HAS SAID
YES GIULIA TABBI 53 A SIMPLE HUMBLE
WORKER POPE BENEDICT VXI 54
VIDEOMUSIC ALICE TIEGHI 55 URBAN TRIBES 56
HEALTH EDUCATION 57 HIP HOP..A DIRTY
DANCE? SARA TULLO 58 THE THIEF WAS SHARP
ENOUGH 59 SAVED BY A DOG 60 A PARTICULAR
THIEF ERIKA ZUMERLE 61 AIRBUS 380 62 FAIRY
TALES 63 MARS AND THE EARTH 64 THE FIRST
ECOLOGICAL MOTORBIKE

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Dehydration

• DEHYDRATION
• IRENE ARVIGO
• When High Temperature Is an Enemy.
•  
• In order to help ones thermoregulation we need
  to drink two litres of water per day, but
• we must pay attention to sugared drinks and we
  have to keep a special eye to old people and
• children as regards dehydration!
• When there is hot temperature and high humidity
  our thermoregulation system is under
• pressure in order to keep our body temperature
  even.
• Sweating, we loose water and mineral salts till
  we get the typical symptoms of dehydration
• thirst, tiredness, muscular weakness, arterial
  pressure problems. Also our reins can face a
• difficult situation working with a poor water
  quantity .
• That is the reason why we need to drink more or
  less two litres of water even if we are not
• thirsty. Fruit juices are not very useful because
  they contain sugar and the same increases
• our level of calories. We have absolutely to
  avoid alcoholic drinks even if they are cold. The
  
• best way to re-hydrate is eating fruit and
  vegetables because they contain 80 liquids and
• mineral salts.

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EASTER GIFTS
EASTER GIFTS

• IRENE ARVIGO
• Statistics say that over 1 ton of chocolate is
  going to be produced for next Easter.
• This wide quantity of chocolate is used to make
  chocolate eggs, chocolates, sweets and cakes.
• Interviews tell us that people prefer to present
  chocolate eggs instead of chocolates. For
  children the
• best gift is Winnie Poohs chocolate egg with a
  great surprise inside, but also Pokemon, Kinder
  and
• Barbies eggs are the most wanted.
• There are also many other things to present. For
  example the most modern creations are chocolate
• flowers! Well, please, think about presenting a
  bunch of chocolate flowers to your loved one...
  it is an
• unforgettable and good gift! Or, if a relative of
  yours is a mechanic or a carpenter you can
  present him
• or her a chocolate tool, for example a chocolate
  hammer!
• It is really similar to the real one but
  surely... sweeter!
• We have also to consider that chocolate is a very
  good food for everybody because it is sweet and
• tasty. It has also an important role for our
  health it is a natural medicine against tumours
  and it is not
• so disgusting as many medicines are! You can eat
  it, but with moderation!
• Anyway, Happy Easter to everybody!

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DRINKING DANGER

• IRENE ARVIGO
• If parents are thinking of offering their
  teenagers some mulled wine or egg- nog during
• Christmas holidays, they should consider the
  latest study from the University of Buffalo.
• Researches have surveyed the drinking habits of
  2.200 Americans and found that the
• Younger their subjects are when they have their
  first drink, the more likely they are to
• abuse alcohol when adults.
• Scientists are even able to quantify the risk
  for every year earlier an adolescent starts
• drinking, the chances of becoming a problem
  drinker increase 12.
• They also have found that for the kids who begin
  drinking as teens, there are more
• possibilities to become seriously intoxicated
  during routine drinking episodes later in life,
• probably because they need more alcohol to get
  high.

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Roses St. Valentines Day IRENE ARVIGO

• Its that time of year again the time to show
  your boyfriend / girlfriend how much you love him
  / her. Its a well
• known fact that every year on
• February 14th, the world goes crazy for romantic
  cards, chocolates, red roses, candle lit dinners.
• Worldwide, more than 50 million roses are sold on
  this day.
• The exact origin of Valentines Day remains a
  debated mystery. The red rose has been the potent
  symbol of
• passion and love since the classical age.
• Someone believes that its origin derives from St.
  Valentine, martyred on February 14th, 270 a. D
  because he
• kept on performing secret marriages against the
  Emperor Claudius II s will.
• The tradition of giving flowers on St.
  Valentines Day began in the 17th century and has
  continued through the
• ages. Nowadays giving flowers is a well-known
  romantic gesture.
• But what about trying something a bit different?
  There is nothing more romantic than buying a gift
  that is
• personally special to you-maybe it represents the
  flower you had in your wedding bouquet. Tulips,
  lilies are all
• beautifully elegant and can make a lovely
  surprise.
• Or, if you are really looking for something
  different, you can make a really special surprise
  in the same way as a
• young boy made 3 years ago he bought 101 roses
  and using them he wrote I love you underneath
  his
• girlfriends balcony. She was so happy that
  decided to accept marrying him.
• Another happy ending story took place 2 years ago
  in Britain on this day. A boy wrote a poster with
  rose petals
• and attached it to four balloons and took it into
  his girlfriends room.
• However the most romantic story is an old mans.
  He covered his wifes gift and his house walk
  from the gate

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE RADIO MARTA BISSO

• On the 10th of March 1975, about 30 years ago, a
  free radio, RADIO MILANO INTERNATIONAL,
• was born. Before, there was only RADIO
  MONTECARLO, which used to go on air at 7.00 pm.
• RADIO MILANO INTERNATIONAL was founded by Nino e
  Piero Cozzi and Rino Borra, but, a
• month later, the police closed it and the three
  guys were prosecuted. After a short time, they
  got
• free and started the epoch of private radios.
• People were enthusiastic because they could phone
  the radio and ask for their favourite songs,
• and this made them happy.
• Meanwhile other free radios came out, like in the
  famous film American Graffiti with its Lupo
• Solitario(the free radio symbol). Europost, the
  mail police, made a war against free radios until
• 1976. After 1976 there were two free radios
  RADIO MILANO INTERNATIONAL and RADIO
• 105. With the programme Good Morning Vietnam
  RADIO MILANO INTERNATIONAL was the
• most listened to.
• Later, other free radios came out like in 1978,
  in Milan, RADIO DEEJAY whose first director was
• Claudio Cecchetto.
• Today RADIO DEEJAY has got about 6 million
  listeners, its director is Linus and before he
  was
• the deejay OF RADIO MILANO INTERNATIONAL.

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Warm Is Coming, Here Are the Consequences

• WARM IS COMING. HERE ARE THE CONSEQUENCES
• LAURA BOBBIO
• African warm lies in want. Still a day with some
  clouds, and then sun and high
• temperatures will give Italians a real
  hors-doeuvre of summer.
• According to the weather forecast the so-called
  African bubble will take a long period
• of sultriness.
• Today is still raining, however, from tomorrow
  the weather will begin to better.
• From Wednesday temperatures will increase and, in
  the cities, the alarm because of
• pollution will be released in fact the levels of
  pollution are destined to increase and new
• precautions about the traffic are not excluded.
• With warm the first fires will begin breaking
  out. Yesterday a big fire-raising has broken
• out in Salerno. The material damages are huge,
  the environmental one incalculable.
•  
•  

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AN INCREDIBLE FINDINGFEDERICA CARRARO

• Maria, a twenty-six-year-old woman from Padua,
  has found her
• natural mother during a job interview.
• The girl was answering her examiners questions
  when she became
• aware the psychologist knew a lot of particulars
  about her. She began
• asking the examiner why until the latter revealed
  that she was her
• mother.
• The adoptive parents had told Maria about her
  condition and she has
• always tried to find her natural mother.
• Unfortunately, the psychologist did not give
  signs of being particularly
• happy of finding her daughter again.
•  

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CHILDREN SUE THEIR PARENTS

• GIORGIA CASELLA
• PARIS Thousands of parents are taken in
  tribunal by their children because the pocket
• money is too short.
• This event is getting to an alarming sum. In fact
  2000 out of 400,000 familiar cases are
• about children against their parents.
• There is a famous article in the civil code that
  says Parents must feed, nourish and
• bring up their own children. All guys appeal to
  this law to legitimate their requests.
• The duty lasts until the children find a steady
  work and so it is not a simple pocket
• money but a real maintenance.
• Now if the children win the suit, they will
  receive the 10 of the months salary of their
• parents.
•  

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BLACK HOLES ARE THEY EATING STARS?GIULIA
CIOCCA

• Certainly, black holes are the most mysterious
  objects among the enormous fauna living in the
• Universe. Nobody has ever seen them, also because
  they absorb every luminous ray without
• letting it out. In fact there is also someone who
  doubts of their existence.
• Nowadays, most scientists believe that they
  really exist and, indeed, they think at least one
  of
• them is in the middle of almost every galaxy
  (about ten thousands) that populate the Universe.
• Even if black holes are invisible, they
  denounce their presence owing to their very
  strong
• gravitational attraction practised on the
  surrounding materials that, under the effects of
  the
• enormous acceleration, sends forth X-rays
  intercepted by radio astronomic instruments and
• space probes. The material inside the black hole
  is extremely compressed ten stars as big as
• the Sun (696.500 Km radius) could become a sphere
  of 10 Km radius.
• Moreover, according to scientists, black holes
  will become bigger and bigger eating the material
• around them.
• Michael Merrifield, one of the most famous
  teachers at Nottingham University, verified this
• assumption. A black hole lives milliards years,
  so we cannot follow its evolution, he said and
  so
• he thought to weigh the ones inside 23 galaxies
  near the Earth.
• RESULT black holes fatten up during their life
  swallowing everything passing near them, without
• being careful to the quality but only to the
  quantity. They are really bulimic! 

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CRINOIDS AMBIENT SENTRIES GIULIA CIOCCA

• To value the quality of coastal water we need a
  flower the sea lily (Anthedon
• Mediterranea). This organism, only apparently a
  vegetable (it is in fact an invertebrate
• echinoderm, that belongs to the class of
  crinoids), can help us to discover the presence
• of very little quantities of Pcb
  (policlorodifenil) the famous chlorodical
  compound
• (similar to dioxin) that has contaminated the
  fish fodders coming from Belgium.
• Such as other echinoderms (starfish, sea urchin),
  the Anthedon has extraordinary
• regenerating abilities after spontaneous or
  traumatic amputations, these animals can
• completely and quickly replace one or more arms.
  However, recent experiments have
• demonstrated that pollutants in the water
  influence regeneration methods in particular
• Pcb, behaving as an endocrine destroyer
  interferes on the hormones that take care of
• development.
• In a laboratory experiment, the animals have been
  exposed to a commercial mixture of
• chloride.
• RESULTS the regeneration process appears very
  modified. This confirms that crinoids
• are really efficient as ambient sentries for
  our coasts but unfortunately, also that Pcb is
• very dangerous for the whole ecosystem.

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Grey Whales

• GREY WHALES
• GIULIA CIOCCA
• Since remote times, every year the grey whales
  (Eschrichtius
• robustus) of the northern Pacific Ocean, have
  been crossing
• the 8,000 km that separate the Bering Strait, in
  Alaska, from
• the lagoons of California Bay, in Mexico, between
  autumn and
• February.
• There, they find the best temperature and
  salinity to give birth
• and raise their young puppies. This species of
  big cetaceans,
• extinct in the Atlantic Ocean, counts about
  21.000 specimens
• and it has been protected by the International
  Whaler
• Commission since 1937 and by Mexican government
  since1949.
• But now, grey whales are threatened by a serious
  danger. The
• Mexican state society of Exportadora de Sal and
  the Japanese
• multinational Mitsubishi have reached an
  agreement to realise
• inside San Ignacio lagoon, one of the most
  frequented by
• parturient and puerperal whales, the largest salt
  work of the
• world.
• According to scientists, the cocktail of noise,
  salinity

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A NEW POPE MOBILEVALENTINA CONTI

• Hamburg Volkswagen is interested in building
  the new pope-mobile, a car
• explicitly drawn and built for the Pope. It has
  been said by the spokesman of
• the famous German motor company.
• Volkswagen could present this car on the occasion
  of the Youth Day that will
• take place in Cologne from the 15th to the 21st
  of August 2005. On the Youth
• Day, the motor company should be one of the
  sponsors of the manifestation
• and it will show at least 100 cars.
• If a special car is requested for the Pope
  the spokesman has said we will
• build it. The new pope-mobile could be shaped
  like the latest cars of
• Volkswagen Touareg or Pantheon. They are big
  cars and so they put up the
• Pope comfortably.
• John Paul II armoured-plated pope-mobile was
  made by another German motor
• Company Mercedes-Benz.
• Pope Benedict XVI has already expressed his
  approval in receiving this
• present.

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A PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS VALENTINA CONTI

• LANZAROTE The government of the Canary Islands
  has just
• declared the state of emergency in the island of
  Lanzarote because
• of plague of locusts coming from Africa.
• Pedro Rodriguez Zaragoza, the minister of
  agriculture, has
• explained that the situation in the other islands
  is not so alarming
• as in Lanzarote, but the insects are going to
  spread everywhere.
• The authorities of the Canaries have started
  diffusing toxic and
• disinfectant substances to limit the invasion.
  The locusts that
• ravaged the cultivations of Central Africa are
  flying northwards, to
• the Mediterranean Sea. They first also plagued
  the coast of Israel
• and Jordan and now they are plaguing the
  Canaries, especially
• Lanzarote.
• The fight against the infestation is very
  difficult because local
• authorities do not want to use pesticides because
  they can kill the
• other animals and plants which are very important
  for the island.

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A WHALE FOR THE XI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPVALENTINA
CONTI

• LOUSANNE For the first time FINA (The
  International Swimming Federation) has decided to
  hold its most
• important event in North America. It has chosen
  Montreal for the prestigious world competition
  that will take
• place from the 17th to the 31st of July 2005.
• For the city, the region and the whole province,
  this competition is a great event with many young
  athletes
• from 160 countries and over 2000 trainers, team
  officials and athletes competing for top honours
  in five
• disciplines water polo, open water swimming,
  diving, swimming and synchronized swimming. Many
• volunteers, several hundred thousand visitors and
  a large number of journalists will also take part
  in
• Montreal 2005.
• The mascot of this very important event will be a
  beluga whale, the symbol of the hospitality of
  the inhabitants
• of St.Lawrence estuary.
• Our Italian swimming team, satisfied with the
  results of the Olympic Games in Athens, wants to
  repeat its
• great results and each athlete wants to better
  himself. The Italian team aims at winning eight
  medals in
• swimming, four medals in dives from the
  springboard and two in water polo.
• This world championship is the most persuasive
  demonstration of pure waterpower.

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CORK EUROPEAN CULTURE CAPITAL VALENTINA CONTI

• CORK On the 7th of January a great party took
  place in Cork
• to celebrate the new 2005 European Culture
  Capital. The city
• was invaded by 85.000 people who were present at
  the opening
• ceremony organized by the Irish President Mary Mc
  Aleese.
• In the second city of Ireland for inhabitants, it
  will be an intense
• year and Cork expects musical performances,
  sporting and
• cultural events, theatrical shows and many
  entertainments.
• Many artists from Italy, like Andrea Boccelli,
  from the
• United States and naturally from Ireland will
  arrive in Cork
• and here they are performing. 13,5 millions euros
  will be spent f
• or the performances.
• Cork was nominated European Culture Capital in
  2002 and
• it is the smallest city that has ever had such an
  honour
•  

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Sharks Slaughter the GalapagosVALENTINA CONTI

• QUITO The Ecuador government has just issued a
  decree to stop
• the shark massacre in the sea of Ecuador and in
  particular around
• the earthly paradise of the Galapagos Islands.
• Several ecologist organizations had already
  reported the murder of
• over 200,000 sharks every year but the charge had
  been taken in
• consideration by the Ecuadorian authorities. The
  fishermen of the
• Galapagos catch sharks to sell their fins in
  Asian markets and,
• especially in China and Hong Kong, people pay 100
  dollars for a
• plate of shark fins soup. After catching the
  sharks, the fishermen cut
• their fins and throw back their bodies into the
  water to hide any
• evidence. Environmentalists and the tourism
  industry are lobbying
• for more protection for sharks also because shark
  fishing is illegal in
• the Galapagos. Sharks are very important for the
  fauna of the Pacific
• Ocean even if they scare tourists and scuba
  divers who can be
• murdered by them.

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MORE PIRATES ATTACKSGIULIA DE PAOLIS

• Pirates continue to infest the South-East Asia
  Sea, but also the African and
• Caribbean seas.
• The latest attack happened in February in
  Bangladesh against a sailing boat
• that was completely sacked of everything there
  was on board.
• Nowadays pirates' attacks are very frequent.
  Pirates get on the boats, rob
• everything and kill also boat owners. Once upon a
  time pirates did not do it,
• but now things have changed, in fact they attack
  ships and tankers too.
• Pirates can steal easily, and now corsairs have
  discovered a new business
• they take a ship and ask the ship owners two
  million dollars, after they
• threaten hostages. Sometimes the ship owner pays
  immediately the ransom in
• order to make himself reimbursed by the insurance
  company.
• Unfortunately the number of victims is growing,
  and the only way to sail
• safely is to install actions projectors, noisy
  sirens of warning and building a
• metal electric net placed around the inhabited
  area of the ship. When
• someone touches it, he does not get a mortal
  shake.

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TAI PEI 101THE KING OF THE SKYSCRAPERS NICOLE
FERRARI

• Requested by the president of Taiwan, Taipei 101
  is the highest skyscraper in the World. It is
• the monument of the city, is 508 m high and 101
  floors. It will be inaugurated on December
• and 10000 people will work inside it and none of
  them will have to wait for the elevator for
• more than 30 seconds. In fact there are sixty
  three elevators that take forty seconds to go
• from the first floor to the eighty-ninth one. Its
  garage contains 1839 cars and 2990 motorbikes
• and inside the skyscraper there will be pubs,
  restaurants, a fitness centre, a swimming pool,
• a big market and maybe a hotel. In spite of its
  height it can resist to the wind and a
• earthquake thanks to its resistant structure and
  a big sphere between the eighty-seventh and
• the ninety second floor, which balances its
  movement . It weights 660 t and is 5,5 m large.
• On its façade there are some enormous plates and
  clouds, symbols of happiness.
• On the corners there are many dragons, which
  adorn the building. In Shanghai there is
• Another skyscraper, not finished yet, which maybe
  will be higher than Taipei 101 but the
• president of Taiwan is not worried about it
  Anyway Taipei 101 will take us on the top of the
• world.

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TRAGEDY IN TOKIONICOLE FERRARI

• A TRAIN GOES OFF THE RAILS FIFTY-SIX DEAD
  PEOPLE
• Tokyo - Yesterdays tragedy in Japan - At 0918 a
  train full of commuters
• went off the rails crashing into a building. In
  Anagasaki an industrial district
• nearby Osaka, five wagons went off and two
  crashed into an eighty-floor
• building, standing six metres from the rails. The
  accident caused about sixty
• dead people and three hundred wounded ones.
• The driver, a twenty three-year-old man, was
  ninety seconds late, too much in
• comparison to the perfect punctuality that is
  usual in Japan. Its incredible!
• Putting pressure on a person for such a little
  time. Said Ken Tabuchi, a
• young American man who has been living and
  working in Tokio for three
• years.
• Trains always run at a two minutes distance and
  the risk of accidents and
• blockages is very high.
• It is one of the biggest railway disasters in
  Japan.
•  

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The Population on the Earth

• THE POPULATION ON THE EARTH
• NICOLE FERRARI
• One of the biggest problems of the world is the
  great quantity of people. More than
• 6,000,000,000 inhabitants and their life
  conditions are very hard in many parts of the
• Earth.
• The real danger however is the high rise of
  population in poorer countries every woman
• has at least four children. This is due to their
  bad conditions and very little information.
• There are three possible solutions to better this
  critical situation
• -         The developed countries could teach how
  to use contraceptives.
• -         Sanitary fittings should be more
  diffused.
• -         There should be more education.
• The first problem is the worst. In too large
  families surviving becomes more and more
• difficult and the children are often illiterate.
• The people in the rich countries should be less
  indifferent and try to help the poor ones,
• also through associations all over the world.
•  
•  

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MODERN BALLAD SINGERS SILVIA GATTI

• In the past there were a lot of ballad singers
  and now, they say, have almost disappeared, but
  it is not true at
• all! Modern ballad singers have many new stories
  and tell them in Italian museums.
• This is a project of Holden Art an association
  born some years ago when the Racconigi castle
  director asked
• Holden School for help. He wanted to improve the
  relationship between the museums and its
  visitors, by the
• use of ballad singers. For this reason Holden
  Art created a lot of courses for tourists
  guides in Piedmont
• and somewhere else. The Holden school director,
  Lea Iandiorio, in fact, explains that she
  proposed to teach
• them how to draw out stories from art places.
• The stories seem useful to show people art and to
  find information about monuments, churches,
  palaces.
• People can find ballad singers, telling their
  stories at Quirinale in Rome or the Civic Museums
  in Genoa.
• Epic stories are told at the Archaeological
  Museum, in Bologna. At Rivoli castle people asked
  to invent a story
• for every statue and picture now a ballad
  singer reads them in front of those works.
• On the 4th and the 5th February2005 in Turin
  there will be an international conference, where
  people will
• Compare their experiences and speak about modern
  ballad singers. A sociologist from Helsinki,
  who
• discovered that telling an art work can make
  people think, will take part in the conference
  and an expert from
• the Chester Beatty museum, in Dublin, will
  explain her experience too. In this conference
  people will
• understand how a silent place can become a sort
  of theatre creating a dialogue between people and
  art.
• There is also someone who wants visitors to
  invent their own stories, as in the case of the
  writer Antonella
• Cilento, with her project City Ways, or of the
  competition 6,000 Letters for a Museum. To take
  part in the

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• UFO AND SCIENCE
• SILVIA GATTI
• Massimo Teodorani is a researcher, an expert in
  astrophysics. For many years he has studied UFO
• phenomena, looking for a scientific explanation.
  Perhaps he has recently found it and has just
  published
• his hypothesis on the Journal of Scientific
  Exploration. UFOs appear suddenly, but always in
  the night
• and people can watch them without any telescope.
  They disappear with the same speed, and then they
  
• appear again in another part of the sky, by a
  quick movement. They often produce more spheres
  of light and
• when they are all together, they have the strange
  shape of a bunch.
• Teodorani thinks that these spheres of light
  are plasma whirls, made by gas. They can be
  seen because
• they shine and are caused by tectonic movements
  of the Earth and the electric field made by some
• crystal (as quartz). The phenomenon can be
  observed, above all, at Messdalen (Norway), but
  also at the
• Ontario Lake (Canada), the Arizona desert, the
  Avalon Beach (Australia), and the Sibillini
  Mountains (Italy).
• Messdalen is not a seismic area, but, in the
  night, the water in the ground becomes ice. It
  breaks rocks,
• producing seismic movements. Teodorani says that
  it can explain 80 per cent of the strange lights
  in Messdalen
• sky he is still trying to find a scientific
  explanation to the other phenomena, but excludes
  the Alien hypothesis.
• Many scientists are studying how these spheres
  can survive they produce a lot of energy, but
  where do they
• take it from? They get bigger and bigger, but do
  not get colder as every other gas does, how can
  it happen?
• UFO lovers will not like this news, but
  scientists hope it is the discovery of a new
  energy, more than a meeting
• with E.T.!

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A Thousand and One Night

• A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHT
• SILVIA GATTI
• The king Shahriyar was terribly angry because his
  wife was unfaithful to him so he decided to kill
  her.
• But he was not satisfied, in fact he wanted to
  spend every night with a different woman and kill
  her the
• next morning.
• Sharazad, one of the vizirs daughters, was
  chosen, but she was too nice and intelligent to
  die. She told
• the king stories for a thousand and one nights.
  In fact when the morning came she stopped at the
  most
• interesting moment of the story.
• In this way the king decided, for a thousand and
  one dawns, to save her life and listen to the
  end.
• Eventually the king changed his mind about women
  fell in love with her and married Sharazad.
• Western people have read it for almost three
  hundred years, exactly from 1704, when Antoine
  Galland
• published its first translation. It was followed
  by other six volumes in 1709 in fact it had a
  great success.
• It represented the symbol of the East, with its
  perfumes, colours and passions. In those stories
  western
• people saw everything seen as a taboo possible.
  This is the reason why Antoine Galland wrote most
• of the stories, 719, by himself, following only
  what people in French and English drawing rooms
  desired.
• Claudia Ott has recently discovered it, at the
  book fair in Frankfurt. Here she presents her new
• translation, of the original stories, which are
  282 only. She has based it on the 1984 edition by
  Iraqi Muhsin
• Mahdi, a professor at Harvard. Antoine Galland
  wrote himself also some among the most known
  Aladdin,
• Sinbad or Ali Baba. Now they may disappear with
  our dreams about the East.

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Genetically Modified Cats

• GENETICALLY MODIFIED CATS
• SILVIA GATTI
• There is someone who fights against the GMO in
  the world and there is Simon Brodie, a genetic
• engineer he is the president of a society in Los
  Angeles, called Allerca. This team of
• scientists has a project they want to modify
  cats to create hypoallergenic ones. They are
  going
• to modify cats saliva genetic composition that
  makes their skin humid. In fact it is also the
• reason why cats make some of us sneeze. In 2007
  the hypoallergenic cats are going to be ready.
• The first cats are going to be British
  Shorthair, they are loving and playful with
  time almost
• every kind of cats could be hypoallergenic, but
  after soundings and under request only! In fact
• you must book them. Also from now you can book
  one of them on the web paying 3.500 dollars,
• after a deposit of 250 dollars.
• This is not the first project of this society for
  GMO animals some time ago these scientists
• invented the Glo Fish, a fluorescent fish you
  can see in the darkness too. If you look for an
• American aquarium you will find a nice Glo Fish
  swimming in it!

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The Portable Dog

• THE PORTABLE DOG
• SILVIA GATTI
• Can you remember Tamagotchi? It was a videogame
  about a dog. You had to feed and take care of it
  by
• three buttons or it died. It had a great success
  all over the world in fact 40 million people
  bought it.
• Now it is back, but it is nicer and more
  sophisticated than before. Its name is
  Nintendogs and it will
• arrive in Europe very soon, trying to win more
  peoples heart than Tamagotchi. There are many
  differences
• between them for example the Nintendog can
  learn what you want to teach it and it will not
  get older or
• die.
• To use it, you should buy the new version of the
  Nintendo Game Boy, the Ds. It has got a touch
  screen
• that permits you to interact with the dog by a
  little pen. You can call it by your own voice
  (the Ds has
• got a microphone too), caress it with the little
  pen you should treat him as a real pet.
• As old Tamagotchi, it has already created a lot
  of polemics. The psychologists think that the
  children risk
• considering the virtual dog as a real pet, giving
  less importance to life.
• At the same time Satoru Iwata, the president of
  the Nintendo Company, says that videogames need
  to be
• improved. His multinational has already sold 180
  million videogames all over the world, giving an
  illusion
• of real life to every customer.

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Anna-Konda

• ANNA KONDA
• SILVIA GATTI
• In Norway there is an organisation called
  Sintef. It is formed of many researchers
• who have made a new robot. Its name is
  Anna-Konda, in fact it looks like a red
• anaconda, but it is only a robot shaped like a
  snake.
• Anacondas usually live in tropical forests, but
  now we can find them in the cold
• Norwegian environment. They are very big and
  strong kinds of snakes and are thought
• very dangerous kinds of animals also for people.
• The Norwegian Anna-Konda has been created to help
  people, not to frighten them .
• Above all they can help the firemen to set off a
  fire or bring to trapped people oxygen
• masks. They can also get into holes in the ground
  with cameras and lights to give a more
• specific idea of the real situation to the aid.
• Anna-Konda has been presented by a famous
  Norwegian newspaper the Aftenposten.
• The new robot has not got any kind of wheels, but
  it is moved by 20 hydraulic engines
• and can slide in a lot of narrow places.

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A MARS SHARE ON THE EARTHSILVIA GATTI

• Six women have just come back from their mission.
  They spent 15 days in the Utah Desert, but lived
• like astronauts on Mars. Their mission is called
  Mona Lisa it is a part of another project, the
  Mars
• Analog Research Station (MARS). It takes place
  in the Utah Desert, U.S.A., but also on Devon
  Island,
• North-Canada. It was created and is financed by
  Nasa and the Mars Society, a private society
  formed of
• people from 29 different countries.
• The scientists want to find the right solution to
  spend a long time on Mars. To do that they have
  to
• simulate what could happen, what the future
  astronauts could find on the real Mars and their
• conditions on the Red Planet. Because of it,
  since 2001 groups of astronauts and researches
  have been
• alternating for 15 days. They live simulating
  Mars life, with hard duties, researches samples,
  tests in
• the laboratory of the base and two meetings a
  day. Also communications are simulated and they
  may
• arrive on Mars later, as if they arrived from the
  Earth. They have to do some researches, as if
  places
• around them were unknown.
• A psychologist of the Johnson Space Flight
  Centre, Ephimia Morphew, that follows the
  project, says
• that they are looking for the perfect crew, which
  could leave to Mars.
• The mission composed of women had three aims to
  test the level of stress in an only-women
• community, to do experiments about some different
  kinds of overalls and to complete geologic and
• biological missions. It has given great results,
  so they will be compared with the ones of the
  previous
• mission, composed by men.
• Now a new crew is getting ready for another
  journey to prepare the real 2027 mission to Mars

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Great Britain Celebrates Its Sea

• GREAT BRITAIN CELEBRATES ITS SEA
• VALERIA OLIVARI
• The population of Great Britain wants to remember
  Trafalgar battle in
• which Admiral Nelson the hero of the United
  Kingdom died.
• They want to celebrate the relationship to the
  British sea with some
• events. In Portsmouth will take place The
  International Festival of the
• Sea, with concerts and historic reconstructions.
  In the festival will take
• part a lot of wonderful sailing ships from more
  than 40 countries in the
• world and ancient boats in a beautiful parade
  the International Fleet
• Review that will commemorate the Royal Navy.
• Then in autumn the Tall Ship Race in which will
  take part more than 120
• ships will be set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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MOBILE PHONES ARE NOT DANGEROUS!

• MOBILE PHONES ARE NOT DANGEROUS
• VALERIA OLIVARI
• In the last three years a scientists group
  studied the effects of mobile phones on people.
• In particular they wanted to test if the rising
  of temperature in the ears during a phone
• call is dangerous for our brain and ears. They
  now can assert that it is not dangerous,
• because the rising of temperature in the outer
  part of the ear is caused by the contact
• between the ear and the phone. Moreover, they
  have discovered also that the use of an
• old type of mobile phone could cause a particular
  type of tumour in the acoustic nerve.
• During some experiments, the scientists have
  found out that electromagnetic waves are
• more easily absorbed by small heads the ones of
  children, young boys and girls.
• Now experts are experimenting the effects of
  electromagnetic waves on animals.

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CALIPARIS CASE IS STILL OPENVALENTINA OLIVERI

• Rome -The inquiry about the killing of Nicola
  Calipari is not concluded yet Italy
• and USA get along about it.
• Yesterday the Italian Prime Minister explained
  that the situation is not over even
• if some voices from the Pentagon said that the
  commission has acquitted
• American soldiers.
• The American Minister of Defense has specified
  that they havent arrived at a
• final decision on the report.
• Meanwhile Giuliana Sgrena has confirmed in a
  press conference that the
• killing of Nicola Calipari has been a homicide
  and not an accident, she wants
• the truth she wants to know who has not given
  the order of not shooting at the
• car. She says also that there are political
  responsibilities.
• All of this is shared by the opposition that has
  in fact asked for an explanation
• in Parliament.

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A LITTLE GENIUS COMMITS SUICIDE

• A LITTLE GENIUS COMMITS SUICIDE
• ZAIRA PAPARELLA
• United States, March. Brandenn Brammer, the
  cleverest child in the world,committed a
• suicide. He was only fourteen and he had already
  graduated from Fort Collins in California
• when he was ten.
• Brandenn Brammer was the most well known American
  child in the world, but the loneliest
• one too . When he was eighteen months he could
  read and play the piano. At six he attended
• high school and then he passed his school leaving
  exam with very good marks.
• His IQ (intelligence quotient) was 178. A 130 and
  150 IQ means that a person is very Intelligent
• so Brandenn Brammer was a great genius.
• He had got a normal and close family. His parents
  treated him in a normal way and they did not
• want him to feel different from the other
  children. All of these things have been useless
  for him.
• He suffered from depression and so he decided to
  put an end to his life and shot himself in his
• house.

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A MOTORBIKE ACCIDENTZAIRA PAPARELLA

• Torrazza. 22 April. The mobile phone rang once,
  twice ten times but Luca
• did not answer. Later somebody answered and said
  Here the police. No, you
• have not got the wrong number this is Lucas
  phone. Come here
• immediately! Gianfranco R. went to Torrazza as
  fast as possible. When he
• arrived at S.Olcese he saw a white sheet on the
  road and understood what
• had happened.
• Luca Rio was 17, lived in via don Pertica Casella
  with his mother Daniela and
• his brother Matteo. He was a student and had a
  girlfriend who attends the
• third year in "Grazia Deledda" High School. He
  died at 13.30 while he was
• coming back from "Leonardo Da Vinci" High School
  by his motorbike Aprilia
• 125 cc. Luca crashed against a white lorry that
  was in a wrong position.
• The police are investigating on the accident. The
  lorry driver is shocked and
• says that he did not see the motorbike.
• The boys funeral will take place in Casella on
  the 26th of April at 1100 oclock.

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Di Caprio at Oscars with The Aviator

• DI CAPRIO AT OSCARS WITH THE AVIATOR
• LUCREZIA RINALDI
• This is the second nomination for Leonardo
  DiCaprio. He was previously
• nominated in 1993 but he did not win.
• Now with the film The Aviator,directed by
  Martin Scorsese, he has some
• possibilities to take the prize for the best
  actor, in fact many critics consider this
• performance the best in his career and the film
  one of the best of the year.
• The Cast includes also actors like Michael Mann,
  Sandy Climan, Graham King, Charles
• Evans Jr., Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John
  C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda
• and Jude Law.
• The story written by John Logan is a 100 million
  biography of the billionaire Howard
• Hughes . It talks about his life from the time of
  his forays to filmmaking in the late
• 1920s to his battles with Congress in the 1940s.
  The film explores also his relationships
• with Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner, his
  pioneering efforts in the area of aviation
• and the beginning of his problems of isolation
  and madness.
• Di Caprio will compete for the oscar against
  Johnny Depp in "Finding Neverland", Jamie
• Foxx for "Ray", Jim Carrey for "Eternal Sunshine"
  and the Mexican Gael Garcia Bernal
• for "The Motorcycle Diaries".

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HIV Vaccine,We Are Near

• HIV VACCINE, WE ARE NEAR
• LUCREZIA RINALDI
• SAN PAULO, Brazil, an experimental vaccine has
  reduced the presence of the HIV virus
• (which is the cause of AIDS) by 80 per cent. It
  can be read in a Brazilian study on 18 infected
• patients released in the gazette Nature
  Medicine.
• The virus loads in all patients fell and stayed
  low for one year after being inoculated with the
• vaccine three times in a six-week period. In
  eight of the patients, viral loads fell by more
  than
• 90 .
• The patients did not receive any antiviral drugs
  before or during the study, which was
• conducted by the Federal University in Pernambuco
  state and sponsored by French medical
• institutes. Despite the encouraging results,
  researchers advised caution about hope for a
• cure for HIV. "We should emphasize that the
  efficacy of such a therapeutic vaccine will not
• be definitively proven until a randomised trial
  with an appropriate control arm has been
• performed," the authors said in the British
  gazette.
• The Brazilian government AIDS prevention and
  treatment program has been cited by the
• United Nations as a model for the developing
  world because it provides free antiviral drugs
• for HIV patients.

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OGM Danger Or Progress?

• OGM DANGER OR PROGRESS
• LUCREZIA RINALDI
• In this period we often hear about OGM (Organisms
  Genetically Manipulated), artificial organisms
  often
• property of a company, created enclosing pieces
  of DNA of other organisms in a different genetic
  patrimony.
• They are different from the standard
  miscegenation. The classic technique is, in fact,
  used in
• farming to improve the characteristics of plants,
  but they use only vegetables fertile among them.
• To create OGM companies combine organisms that
  cannot fertilize themselves naturally.
• They could be dangerous because they are
  artificial combinations of hereditary material,
  but they are also
• very useful. An example is the resistance to
  coldness in new strawberries combined with Artic
  fish DNA.
• Some people (for example Greenpeace members) are
  contrary to OGM, because their delivering in
  nature
• causes irreversible effects on ecosystems, they
  are alive organisms and they could multiply
  themselves,
• escaping to ever supervision. This fear is real.
  An example of the danger is Monsanto, an
  industry based
• on chemical and biotechnology a multinational
  company, famous for the matter of the Orange
  Agent , a
• toxic and carcinogenic agent used in the war of
  Vietnam and for the PCB, the dangerous compound
  more
• harmful than DDT, now forbidden, but which will
  pollute rivers for many years.
• What are the real dangers on health, eating OGM?
  Iper-alerting allergies and decline of immunity
  defences.
• For these reasons it is important to do several
  tests on OGM to be sure of their dangers and
  advantages
• before putting them into market. However this is
  not sufficient, we do not know exactly their
  effects on the
• environment and on peoples health.

38
Green Day the Return of Punk GodsLUCREZIA
RINALDI

• Green Day are called the Punk rock Gods because
  they opened the doors for a river of American
  neo-punk, punk metal, and third
• wave ska revivalists.
• Certainly the genre existed just before this trio
  but they blew air into their Punk gasping lungs.
  Despite criticism, Green Day
• remain as they were at their first album, as
  rebel and independent as when they were
  teenagers. And also their song formula has
• remained the same simple and fun, changing just
  not to be boring. After the printout of their new
  album American Idiot they
• are, once again, on the top of the charts all
  over the world and they are picking up more and
  more fans, but their story begun
• many years ago.
• Green Day were part of the northern California
  underground punk scene. Billie Joe Armstrong
  (guitar, singer) and Mike Dirnt
• (bass, second singer),who were childhood friends,
  formed their first band, Sweet Children, when
  they were only 14. In 1989, the
• group added the drummer Al Sobrante and changed
  its name into Green Day. In the same year, the
  band, independently, released
• its first EP, 1,000 Hours, which was
  well-received in the California punk scene. Soon,
  the group signed a contract with the local
• independent label. Green Day's first album was
  released later. Shortly after its release, the
  band replaced Sobrante with Tre Cool
• (Frank Edwin Wright, III)which became the band's
  permanent drummer.
• Through the '90s, the group continued its career
  with a new album in 1992,Kerplunk whose success
  interested the major record
• labels. Dookie, Green Day's major-label debut,
  was released in 1994. Thanks to MTV support for
  the initial single, "Longview,
• Dookie became a hit. The album continued to get
  success through the summer, with the second
  single, "Basket Case," for five
• weeks on the top of the American modern rock
  charts. At the end of the summer, the band stole
  the show at Woodstock '94,
• which helped the sales of Dookie. By the time
  the fourth single, "When I Come Around," began
  its seven-week stay at number

39
System of a Down
LUCREZIA RINALDI

• System of a Down, the heavy metal band from Los
  Angeles, formed of Serj Tankian (vocals,
• keyboards), John Dolmayan (drums), Daron Malakian
  (guitar, vocals) and Shavo Odadjian (bass) have
• ultimate their fifth album.
• All four members are of Armenian ancestry, and
  some of their songs are about Armenian history
  and
• politic situation.
• The band enjoyed moderate success with their
  first singles, Sugar and Spiders, in their
  debut
• album System of a Down. However the real
  success arrived with Toxicity, which debuted at
  number
• 1 on the American and Canadian charts. Their
  first big hit was the controversial Chop Suey!
  released
• in the late summer of 2001. The title comes from
  a poem of Father Armeni, who wrote about Armenia
• after the genocide of 1915. He asked, like the
  song says, God why have you forsaken me in your
• eyes? Father Armeni also said that in Armenia a
  self righteous suicide has taken place. System
  of a
• Down received constant success in the United
  States through late 2001 and 2002 with their
  hits, Chop
• Suey!, Toxicity, Aerials, and with their
  third album, Steal This Album!.
• In 2004, the band recorded two brand new albums
  for release in 2005 they will be released 6
  months
• apart from each other. They are Mesmerize and
  Hypnotize. Mesmerize will be released in
  April
• and Hypnotize will be released six months
  later. In early January a new track called
  Cigaro was
• leaked on the net.

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KURT COBAINS LAST DAYS LUCREZIA
RINALDI

• Last Days, a biographic film about the leader
  of Nirvana, has just came out in Italy. It talks
  about his last
• days of life, but his story is much longer.
• Kurt Donald Cobain was the leader of Nirvana, the
  grunge band that redefined the sound of the 90s.
  He was
• born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquaim, a
  small town near Seattle. His mother was a
  waitress and his
• father was a mechanic. Cobain soon moved to
  Aberdeen, a depressed and small town.
• He had a sad childhood, his parents divorced when
  he was seven and he never felt loved or secure
  again. He
• became an anti-social and difficult child after
  that event. He also spent a year homeless living
  under a bridge.
• When Cobain was eleven he heard and was captured
  by Sex Pistols that influenced Nirvanas melody.
  He
• formed many bands before Nirvana, founded in1986.
  In 1989 they recorded the first album, Bleach.
• Two years and a half after their first CD they
  released Nevermind, the most famous and
  innovative CD by
• Nirvana and it sold millions. Smells Like Teen
  Spirit, the first single became Nirvana's most
  famous song.
• Cobain was shocked by the success of his music.
  He fell into heroin in the early 90s he said he
  used it as a
• shield against stomach ulcers and stress.
• In February 1992 Cobain ran to Hawaii to marry
  Courtney Love, they had a child. Later Nirvanas
  success went
• on with Incesticide and Utero, which contain some
  of Cobain's most passionate songs.
• In March 1994 Cobain was rushed to hospital in a
  coma after an unsuccessful suicide. On the 5th of
  April he
• barricaded himself in the granny flat behind his
  mansion, put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled
  the trigger.
• Two days later a medical examiner said that
  Cobain had shot himself. The suicide note he
  wrote ended with
• the words "I love you."

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Can Eyes Reveal the Murders Identity?ILARIA
ROSSI

• In the 19th century born this idea the eye can
  hold the last thing, object or
• person, seen before dying.
• In 1863 everything began when M. Warmer, an
  English photographer, took a
• photograph of the eye of a just dead cow. He
  believed to distinguish in the
• photo the slaughterhouse floor that is the last
  thing the animal saw.
• Someone believes that also Scotland Yard used it
  to discover the identity of
• Jack the Ripper.
• The first official denial arrived in 1869 by a
  French doctor, Maxime Vernois,
• who had made some tests to find out the truth.
• Nowadays the belief is still exploited in comics,
  for example in Diabolik, or
• in films, such as in Four Flies on Grey Velvet
  by Dario Argento.
• But this legend has some consequences in the
  present, in fact there have
• been episodes of people who, after killing
  someone, pulled out their victims
• eyes, so that police could not understand who was
  the murderThe story of
• the revealer eye is still alive even in the
  third millennium.

42
A MASSACRE IN MINNESOTAILARIA ROSSI

• Minnesota. Red Lake is a city next to the
  frontier between Minnesota and Canada
• three days ago in the High School of the Indian
  reservation there was a massacre.
• A fifteen-year-old boy, Jeff Weise, after killing
  his grandparents, went to school and
• began to shoot at his schoolmates. He asked them
  some questions about God, and
• then he smiled, greeted and shot. After killing
  ten people, he shot himself.
• Actually this is not the first time that such a
  thing happens. In 1999 in Colorado, two
• young boys slaughtered thirteen people and then
  killed themselves.
• There is a connection between these cases
  Nazism in fact all these boys admired
• Hitler. Jeff, even, was part of a Nazi site and
  he called himself Todesengel that is
• the German expression of Angel of death. Behind
  Jeffs behaviour there is also a
• difficult family situation his father committed
  suicide and his mother is in a mental
• home with many mental problems, so he lived with
  his grandparents.
• This is only another event of a too long line in
  a nation where you can buy weapons
• even in supermarkets.

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STRANGE BOMB-DISPOSAL EXPERTILARIA ROSSI

• In the world there are more than 110 millions of
  antipersonnel mines
• unexploded.
• They are very dangerous not only for human beings
  but also for animals, so
• the Belgian Society Apopo has found a solution
  trained rats.
• In fact, the gigantic rats of Tanzania have a
  very refined smell, are easily
• trainable and are too light to cause the
  explosion of the mines.
• Their training lasts six months and costs less
  than the dogs one.
• First they are educated in labs, then in fields
  strewn with tea filters full of
• explosive and, in the end, in real minefields.
• Every time they find a bomb, they receive peanuts
  or pieces of bananas.
• They are also faster than a human being in fact
  to check 100 m² they take
• Only half an hour, while a man takes the whole
  day. Good idea!
•  

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Tutankhamon Has a FaceILARIA ROSSI

• The child- Pharaoh, so-called because he ascended
  the throne when he was nine
• years old and died when he was only nineteen
  years old, has finally a face his eyes
• were broad, his cheeks chubby and his chin round.
• This is the reconstruction by three teams of
  scientists, an American and an Egyptian
• and French one.
• But Tuts death is still a mystery his mummy was
  found in 1922 by the British been
• archaeologist Howard Carter and was immediately
  analysed by x-rays.
• The analysis pointed out a hole in his skull so
  they thought that he had
• murdered.
• But last March the researchers reached a
  different conclusion Tut died of an
• infection, in fact, the day before his death, his
  right leg was in gangrene because of
• a fracture.
• But, after 3000 years can we consider this case
  closed? And what about the hole in
• his skull?
• According to the experts the hole is probably
  only the result of a blow received
• during the process of embalming.
•  

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Fewer Births

•  
• FEWER BIRTHS
• JESSICA PAOLA SALCESI
• Nowadays in Italy there is a little demographical
  increase. However there is
• still a lower percentage of births than in other
  European countries.
• This is due to more problems than in the past and
  there are some reasons.
• Firstly, young couples have precarious jobs. In
  the past, when a person had a
• job, he might hold it for his whole life.
  Secondly, the coming of EURO
• disadvantages Italian people and consequently
  families become poorer and
• poorer. Thirdly, everything is very expensive and
  a family needs too many
• things and so too much money and time. However if
  a person wants a child,
• he is going to succeed in bringing up him, in
  fact, Italy is increasing her births.
• We are waiting for an Italy full of children!
•  

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Caronia, the Town of Mysteries

• CARONIA THE TOWN OF MYSTERIES
• ALESSIA SCHIRRU
• Caronia is a small town near Messina in Sicily.
  It is not
• a town like the others, it is special. As a
  matter of fact
• since last winter in its buildings strange
  phenomena
• (fires break out and plumbings explode) have
  happened.
• Experts of the Italian Military Marine have not
• Understood the cause of these fires and
  explosions
• yet.
• Aleister Crowlys spirit is held responsible of
  these
• events.
• He was a diabolic English wizard who lived in
  Cefalù,
• next to Caronia, some years ago. He was able to
  light
• candles with the force of his mind only,
  furthermore
• people say that before his death he said that he
  would
• never leave Sicily.
• So is he the cause of this mystery?

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Romanengo a Genoese Jewel

• ROMANENGO A GENOESE JEWEL
• ALESSIA SCHIRRU
• Savour, an important review of gourmet,
  dedicated to Romanengo, the most famous,
• old and important confectionery of Genoa, ten
  pages in its December number.
• The journalist, Anya Fernald, described the shop
  with these words A veritable
• wonderland of sugar-glazed fruits,
  chocolate-coated pralines, and other delights
  and
• inserted three traditional recipes too
  Meringata, Budino di semolino con canditi and
• Canestrelli.
• Romanengo opened on the 1814 in Via Soziglia, it
  is a wonderful shop decorated with
• marbles and valuable woods, today we can see a
  fantastic collection of ancient objects
• used to pack presents during centuries.
• It became quickly famous thanks to its delicious
  sweets in fact it had very important
• customers like Giuseppe Verdi, The Duchess of
  Parma, Prince Umberto, and more
• recently, the Shah of Persia and Queen Elisabeth
  II.
• Today Romanengo exports not only in Europe (Great
  Britain, Germany, Ireland, Austria
• and Switzerland) but in U.S.A too and even in
  Japan!
• The Romanengos still consider their shop a
  Bottega dei vicoli although it is famous all
• over the world.

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PIANO MANALESSIA SCHIRRU

• On the 7th of April 2005 a young man was found on
  a beach in Kent.
• He hasnt said a word yet, he has no tags on his
  clothes but, when at the
• Medway Maritime Hospital in Gallingham a nurse
  gave him a pen and a piece
• of paper, he drew a