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Jailed mafia bosses in Italy have been glued to their sets for a six-part fictionalized account of modern mob life in Sicily.
Not that far from where I sit on the couch watching "Il Capo dei Capi" (boss of bosses), 76-year-old uber mobster Totò Riina also watches his life pass by on the small screen in Milan's maximum security prison Opera.
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Italians are often thought to wear their hearts on their sleeves, now an enterprising headhunter wants them to wear resumes emblazoned on their chests.
Massimo Rosa, who has two decades of experience in the hr biz, invented the "Curriculum T-shirt." And patented the idea, he's so sure of its marketability, said to already have fans outside Italy.
Milan's Sforzesco Castle may be the only 15th-century building to offer free wi-fi.
Officials here were so convinced of their forward thinking that they decided to call it "Wireless Castle" in English. It's part of a 17-million euro project, launched last week, to get Italy's most industrious city wired by 2015 -- apparently no one has told them that some early-adopting cities are now cutting off the juice.
Even after 680 years, Dante still rocks. Italians have a special rapport with the stubborn poet, considered the first to standardize the mother tongue: over the last few years, his "Divine Comedy" has been reborn -- instead of just a text Italians spend years memorizing in high school -- as entertainment for all ages.
It doesn't take much to get a river of chanting Italians into the streets for a protest. They regularly exercise a kind of participatory democracy that many Americans would find exhausting, though it certainly contributes to logging in those 10,000 healthy steps.