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CLIP STICK Saturnino Munoz - Carriqui, Spain...
...interest is something that matters only to that part of the Italian public that supports the opposition anyway. Those who vote for Berlusconi are entirely indifferent to it." Trying To Generate Interest Paying clients interest on checking accounts may be old hat in places like the U.S., Britain and Spain. But when France's mutual group Caisse d'Epargne announced last week it would begin doing so, it was heralded as revolutionary. Caisse d'Epargne's promise to pay 0.5% to 1% interest on its roughly 4.5 million current accounts make it the first major bank in France to exploit...
...truffle, or Tuber indicum, looks virtually indistinguishable from its much vaunted European cousin, Tuber melanosporum, a gastronomic delicacy that perks up winter menus with its earthy pungency. One taste, though, clears up any confusion. The Chinese variety is insipid when compared with the one found in France, Italy and Spain. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles as Umbrian or Périgord black diamonds. The deception has roiled the luxury-food industry, particularly as European harvests have dwindled. Last season, when a heat wave...
...year later Fisher called on the services of Eugene Lyon. He had been researching a doctoral thesis on the historical Spanish presence in Florida at the government archives in Seville, Spain, where Fisher was a frequent visitor. After poring over 50,000 pages of worm-eaten documents, Lyon turned up information that pointed the way to the Atocha: the original 17th century salvors' report indicated that the treasure ship could be found near the desolate Marquesas Keys, off Key West...
...Royal Navy lieutenant commander led the counterespionage team that created "the man who never was," one of the major intelligence hoaxes of the war; in London. The ploy, recounted in Montagu's 1953 book (later a movie), involved a body that washed up on the coast of Spain outfitted in a Royal Marines uniform and with papers indicating that the next Allied thrust would come in Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily. The German high command fell for the ruse, and the beaches of Sicily were only lightly defended when the Allies landed in July...