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Il Ministro della Difesa Roberta Pinotti ha preso parte al convegno "Industria aerospaziale. Un ponte tra Italia e Stati Uniti", che si è svolto al Centro Studi Americani.   L'iniziativa ha rappresentato l'occasione per analizzare l'importanza del comparto aerospaziale all'interno del sistema Paese e promuovere l'eccellenza italiana nel più...

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by Abigail Blasi   With the Italian government strapped for cash, Rome is becoming increasingly creative about how it preserves its heritage. Since 2014, companies funding restoration projects have been offered tax breaks via the Art Bonus scheme.   Luxury label Tod's bankrolled the Colosseum's current restoration, while Fendi, better...

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di Barbara Millucci   Dopo l'Internet delle cose, è il momento dell'Internet of Underwater Things. Ovvero le connessioni ultrarapide sott'acqua. Nasce al dipartimento d' informatica dell'università La Sapienza di Roma un nuova spin off, specializzato proprio in tecnologie per la comunicazione sott'acqua. Il wi-fi sott'acqua per intenderci....

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"L'Italia ha una ricchezza, una diversità, una capillarità di risorse ed energie che chi viene dall'estero conosce benissimo. C'è una domanda di Italia nel mondo a cui non possiamo rispondere con iniziativa solo nazionale: c'è una diversità di regioni, città, realtà imprenditoriali e culturali che rappresentano la vera ricchezza e potenzialità del...

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  WTI Magazine #42    2014 September, 3Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   Labor day– the first Monday of September - is like the beginning of a new year, even in Italy where our Labor Day is celebrated on May 1st. We the Italians is changing, improving, and after the august break our magazine comes back with some news.    The first...

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by Mitch Stacy   The parents who created a "visual bucket list" for their 5-old-old daughter who's slowly going blind started by showing her wondrous sights close to their Ohio home. They never dreamed she'd get to see Rome someday. Elizabeth "Lizzy" Myers and her family will travel to Italy sometime next spring thanks to Turkish Airlin...

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Mario Alioto, 2015 honoree for the San Francisco Ball of the Year, visited Boys' and Girls' Towns with his wife Kelly in February. Mario has been involved with Boys' Town in San Francisco for several years and knows BGTI's history. As he says, "until you put real faces and names to the story, it is impossible to understand the true essence of...

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In the early hours of Monday, a group of American tourists put on their costumes and went for a dip in the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in Rome's Piazza Navona. According to an appalled eyewitness Victoria Wyatt, who published photos of the event on Facebook: "They did full circles around the fountain...after their 20-minute swim, the tourists dr...

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Peter Benson Miller began his three-year tenure as the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director on 1 August. We asked him about his career as an art historian and curator in New York, Paris, and Rome.   You moved to Rome in 2009 from Paris after a period at the Musée d'Orsay. What prompted your move?Several factors led to my return to Rome in 2009, spu...

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By James Mackenzie U.S. President Barack Obama visited the Colosseum in the latest stop on his European tour on Thursday, calling the ancient Roman arena "remarkable, unbelievable" and he was almost as lavish in his praise for Italy's 39-year-old Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.   Renzi, Italy's youngest ever prime minister, has set a testing a...

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