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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...week. The captain's mission: to persuade the 3,400 villagers of Calitri, camped beside the wreckage of their homes after the country's most devastating earthquake in 65 years, to accept temporary shelter elsewhere. His convoy was part of Plan S, a vast effort by the Italian government to evacuate the 234,000 people left homeless by the quake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Chaos of Digging Out | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...Mount Etna. The devastating 7.2 quake that leveled the Algerian city of El Asnam nearly two months ago, killing more than 2,500, occurred almost precisely at one of the points where the African and Eurasian plates are believed to be thrusting against each other. But the Italian peninsula is also being wrenched by other forces within this broad pressure pattern. It is being pinched from the west by the Eurasian plate and from the east by a subdivision of the African plate known as the Apulian. Presumably, strains from these opposing forces caused the Italian quake. Says Florence-born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Predicting Quakes: a Shaky Art | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...their credit, Italian seismologists, who operate a national network of 54 seismic stations, had warned that a major quake might hit sometime after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Predicting Quakes: a Shaky Art | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...plant outside Turin, the Italian firm of Digital Electronic Automation is trying out its first new Pragma A-3000. The $110,000 robot, which has just been licensed by General Electric, is assembling a compressor valve unit from twelve separate parts. Its two arms can do totally different jobs at once. When it picks up a slightly defective gasket in its gray steel claw, it immediately senses something wrong, flicks the gasket to one side and picks up another. The Pragma produces 320 units an hour, without mistakes, and it can labor tirelessly for 24 hours a day. That makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...whom, and for what? Almost 20 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano portrayed a future society in which the elite few run the machines while the unemployable majority subsists on handouts in resentful idleness. "It's an enormous problem," concedes Luigi Lazzaroni, president of the Italian firm that makes the Pragma robot. "Many will have to learn how to work differently. The schools, the industrial firms and the government must cooperate to ensure that the workers are able to fit the requirements of industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

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