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Aggiungi un Posto a Tavola: Una Formica

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God has decreed that no strangers can come along on the new ark. The only solution is for Toto to marry Consolazione. They are both delighted about this, but the rest of the villagers are not, and roundly declare that they will not help build the ark nor travel on it if Consolazione does. Don Silvestro, having appealed in vain to God (who doesn’t seem to be listening) to change their minds, in despair says: “I’ll do it myself.”

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 19

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Goodbye to the widow and historic pharmacist

Degradation at Bione [a local sports complex] – teams in revolt

Offerings stolen from the Capucin [friars]

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Tragedy: Worker at Fiocchi [a factory] tries to kill himself, his mother wants to save him and dies

Black Thursday on the trains and Trenitalia threatens price increases

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 18

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Vandals raid the Resinelli [a tourist area on the mountain above Lecco]: the shocking photos [note that choc = shock, not chocolate]

Tax fraud: troubles for Sergio Longoni

Free gift: the volume “In dialect you say it this way”

Sting: garbage tax goes up 30% for homes, shops, garages, and warehouses

Lecco ever more expensive: price increases for pasta and milk

Alone, depressed, and without work, architect takes his own life

Italian newspaper headlines

Scandal: young girl has sex at school in exchange for cell phone recharges

Albanian severely beats the owner of Bar Roma

The marathon crowns the Lecchesi: problems for the course signage

Tragedy: he shoots himself, but the bullet hits his mother. He is in life-threatening condition [“end of life”]

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 17

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Lecco – Minors mistreated, three arrests

Dervio – The students plant trees

“Massacred” with blows his two children: arrested [massacrato di botte means severely beaten, but not literally massacred]

Sells her shop to cure her sick child in Canada

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Lecchese [resident of Lecco] donates bone marrow and refuses a reward of 700 thousand euros

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