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ANSA. Italy has 16,145 people aged 100 or over, national statistics agency ISTAT said on Monday, adding that the vast majority of the nation's centenarians are women. (Read the article)
THE NEW YORK TIMES. It did not call itself the flagship Ray’s Pizza because it never really had a fleet. It was not Original Ray’s or Famous Ray’s or Original Famous Ray’s or Real Ray’s or Ray’s on Ice or any of the other cloned shops sprinkled like shredded mozzarella all over town. It was simply Ray’s Pizza. (Read the article by Michael Wilson)
USA TODAY. Deep-dish pizza and hot dogs are Chicago's two most famous tourist foods, but for locals, passions run just as high for the city's homegrown Italian Beef. Like a muffuletta, turkey club or BLT, the Italian Beef, invented during the height of the gangster-era in the 1930s, is such a cultural standard that you don't have to use the word sandwich with it. (Read the article by Larry Olmsted)
CBS. An Italian court has ordered the government to pay euro100 million ($137 million) in civil damages to relatives of 81 people killed in a 1980 aircraft disaster that remains one of Italy's most enduring mysteries. (Read the article)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. That quintessential European villa—with a pool and maybe a lemon tree and a tennis court out back—is getting a lot cheaper. Spain, Portugal, Greece and, to a lesser extent, Italy, all immersed in the European debt crisis, are experiencing second-home property price declines. (Read the article by Nancy Keates and Mary M. Lane)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. An Army corporal stationed in Italy in the waning days of World War II acquired a suitcase of war booty, sent it home and stowed in his bedroom closet in upstate New York for 65 years. In it: Il Duce's duds. (Read the article)
ANSA. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) has agreed to return to Italy a 5th-century BC Greek wine-mixing vase as part of a significant programme of restitution and swaps between the US and Italy. (Read the article)
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. At the Festa dell’Unità in Ostia, Democratic Party (PD) leader Massimo D'Alema defended the “reasonable compromise” reached by the Prodi government on civil unions but affirmed his opposition to gay marriages. (Read the article)
THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES. Americans like to celebrate autumn and September is a nice time to have a party. You can toast your blessings from the past summer and toast to new adventures in the fall. The Italian word “ciao” means both hello and good-bye, so it seems appropriate to toast September with something Italian. (Read the article by Bill Garlough)
USA TODAY. Italy-based MSC Cruises is paying homage to its homeland with a series of cruises based around Italian food and wine. The Italian cooking school "La Prova del Cuoco" (Italian for "The Chef's Challenge") is the basis for an Italian television series -- and now a cruise. (Read the article)