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  Transforming Concrete Bunkers into Eco-Hostels

  By Darragh Worland | Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:04 PM ET

  pair of graduate students to turn hundreds of thousands of abandoned concrete bunkers in Albania into eco-hostels ever gets realized.Politecnico di Milano graduate students Gyler Mydyti and Elian Stefa have devised a 105-page proposal to transform some 750,000 bunkers scattered throughout Albani Read More

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  You Can Even Eat the Plate

  By Courtney Rubin | Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:08 PM ET

  for animal food." (To watch a video about the plates – it's in Italian! – click here.)As they say in Italy, mangiare!Photo courtes Read More

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  Tonic Mixtape: Lacuna Coil

  By David Jenison | Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:56 AM ET

  back home, and the Don Gilmore-produced album recently debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200. That is, of course, a career high for group. The Milan-based group is already well known in metal circles, scoring a genre hit with 2006's "Karmacode" album and landing a main stage slot on tha Read More

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  Plenty of Energy Where River Meets Sea

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:00 AM ET

  Until recently the idea sounded great, but the technology wasn't available to make the dream a reality. Now Doriano Brogioli, a researcher in Milan, has developed a system that could, in theory, be scaled up to serve entire communities. The system would have very little impact on th Read More

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  Brüno Arrives!

  By David Jenison | Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:57 AM ET

  famously fell onto Eminem's face at the 2009 MTV Music Awards, and he used a fake ID last fall to enter the Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada fashion show in Milan where he bum rushed the runaway wearing a Velcro outfit. He even caused a stir at a charity bingo tournament where a bystander (who has sinc Read More

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  Sweet Clothes Alabama

  By Rachel Felder | Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:00 AM ET

  one, grab it now. Otherwise, as Tony Soprano might say -- fuhgeddaboudit. The Alabama Chanin for HBO Collection is available a Read More

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