BBC News: Italians dial up best food price
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 22:44
"[A] text system set up jointly by the Italian agriculture ministry and consumer associations, shoppers can check the average price of different foods in northern, central and southern Italy."
BBC News: Italians dial up best food price
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 22:44
"[A] text system set up jointly by the Italian agriculture ministry and consumer associations, shoppers can check the average price of different foods in northern, central and southern Italy."
Sunday, 13 April 2008, 16:54
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"The 2009 IBAF Baseball World Cup (BWC) will be held in Europe. This was confirmed by several press releases of the participating federations. More details will be known after a press conference next week on April 15th in Rome."
Monday, 4 February 2008, 10:08
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"word is that [Polymer Vision] will have a commercial version of the [Readius] phone / e-book reader available sometime in mid-2008 in Italy via Telecom Italia"
Monday, 12 November 2007, 00:04
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"The powerful industrial group that owns the financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore is bracing for a new level of scrutiny in a newspaper market already rife with conflict of interest claims as it prepares to sell a third of the company to the public this month."
Monday, 22 October 2007, 09:27
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"Lirio Abbate has an unwelcome distinction among Italian journalists: correspondent in Sicily for the state news agency Ansa and La Stampa newspaper, he has had his own armed police escort…"
What a shocker
Monday, 18 July 2005, 11:31
The Netherlands have defended their European baseball championship, beating Italy 15-0 in the final in Prague. The Dutch are the dominant in Europe, having now won won 19 of the 29 championships since 1954. Italy is Europe’s second power, having won eight.
Spain and Germany finished third and fourth, and have therefore qualified for the 2007 World Cup.
Great Britain finished seventh. The team must be on a bit of a downer since their hopes host nation qualification for the 2012 Olympics were scuppered by the IOC chosing not to include baseball in the programme for the London games.
Another interesting outcome was the ninth-place finish of Greece. It was their first major tournament since the country cobbled together its Olympic baseball teams from north Americans hastily given Greek passports. In the 2003 European Championships, Greece was represented for the first time ever, and the team of professional ringers went all the way to the final before being stopped by — who else — the Dutch.
This concludes my periodic unhealthy obsession with a European minority sport — at least until the 2005 World Cup begins in Amsterdam in September.
Berlusconi resigns
Monday, 18 April 2005, 23:32
Er, or maybe he didn’t.
My RSS reader reveals that the BBC went through a few interesting revisions on this story:
Italy’sSilvio Berlusconiwill resign his positionsays he has not resigned in order to form a new government,ending aleaving Italy’s politicalcrisis.crisis unresolved.
Keeping China in perspective
Sunday, 19 December 2004, 13:06
Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution quotes the following “fact of the day” from the Wall Street Journal:
…at $1.2 trillion, Italian GDP is roughly the size of China’s, and Italy’s total foreign-trade value of $750 billion is only slightly smaller than that of the mainland.
