Meets All Specks
Some people are hailing it as a culinary revolution. One thing is certain, the re-introduction of certain banned Italian pork products after 15 years represents some serious business opportunities.
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Media
By Meg James, Los Angeles Times
Circulation revenue for daily newspapers grew in 2012 for the first time in a decade as more people paid to subscribe to digital editions, a study says.
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Apple's stock
By Chris O'Brien, Los Angeles Times
Analysts are unsure why Apple's stock has fallen 40% from its high and why its market value has dipped below $400 billion for the first time since January 2012.
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Upcoming Conclave
By Andrea Tornielli, La Stampa
One of the cardinals getting ready to enter the upcoming conclave knows that he himself is not papabile -- that is, his is not one of the names being considered as a possible next pope.
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Silvio Berlusconi
By Luca Ricolfi, La Stampa
Perhaps we deserve Berlusconi and his lies. Not the Italians, maybe, given as a single citizen is largely powerless in the face of a political system. But the media, especially the television, definitely does deserve him.
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US-President Obama
By Gianni Riotta, La Stampa
Let's conduct a simple experiment: search on Google for any image of a recent American President -- Johnson, Nixon, either father or son Bush, Clinton, Obama -- at the moment of their first election victory. Then, search again for an image of the same man a few years later. Each will show the fatigue that the White House brings, the weight of which the historian John Keegan once called "the Mask of Command."
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