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...three of the best pools we've been lucky enough to paddle in lately. Bring your goggles to the Palazzo Sasso's pool in Ravello on Italy's Amalfi's coast, where you can check out the panorama of the coastline through underwater windows over 300 m above the Tyrrhenian Sea (opens in March; tel: [39-089] 818181; www.palazzosasso.com). The famously opulent Grand Wailea in Hawaii features pools and waterslides for swimmers of all ages and the world's only water elevator. But the Wailea's crown jewel is the 450-sq-m Hibiscus Pool with a flower mosaic...
Last week a 700-page reconstruction by an investigating magistrate pointed to another culprit: an air-to-air military missile. The evidence, as reported by the Italian press: the fuselage and several bodies recovered from the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea showed traces of a chemical used solely in high- powered missiles...
...Sunday supper. Thirty-three smaller tremors followed during the night, ranging in intensity from 3.5 to 4.5 (see SCIENCE). From its epicenter at Eboli, near Salerno, the terremoto radiated its destruction through the regions of Campania and Basilicata, a rugged belt of parsimonious countryside between the Apennines and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the ankle of the Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path, the quake concentrated with cruel efficiency on impoverished rural villages. In all, 179 communities suffered at least some damage, and 310,000 people were made homeless. General Antonio Tamburino, military commander...
...current outbreak began late last month in Naples, where it afflicted 94 victims and killed at least ten. Cases of cholera cropped up in the Adriatic port of Bari. The disease erupted in Rome, and finally leaped the Tyrrhenian Sea to Sardinia. By week's end, cases had been reported in Florence and as far north as Bologna and Milan...
Worldwide Words. Aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga 30 miles from Rome in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Nixon recalled the U.S. role in trying to confine the war in Jordan and told the sailors: "Believe me, never has American power been used with more effectiveness." It was, he said, "a restrained and diplomatic use of power." Earlier, he emerged from a chat at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport with 32 Americans who were en route home after being released by Arab hijackers to say that the erstwhile hostages endorsed his policy. At the Southern European headquarters of NATO in Naples...