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@opinione (749)

Italy • Age 55

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Can anyone recommend some good Italian authors?

Foxfire1875 @Foxfire1875 (2010) 12 Feb 08

I recently (well a few months ago) started reading Italian fiction, so far I've read Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino and Guiseppe Genna. Are there any more that someone could recommend to me? I really love the playfulness of all three...

guiseppe genna

italo calvino

umberto eco

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opinione I can suggest you, and not necessarily in this order: Contemporary/Moderns Carlo Emilio Gadda Elio Vittorini Festa Campanile Aldo Palazzeschi There are good translations into English of these Authors, but -if possible for you- it would be better if you...

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URGENT if you are a diabetic or know a diabetic, PLEASE READ THIS!

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 7 Feb 08

A recent study on diabetes and blood sugar control had to be stopped because it was KILLING the participants. Doctors and the American Diabetic Associatioon have long been preaching very rigid control of blood glucose levels...

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opinione Ok I'm diabetic, type II, and I can tell you that I've a good control of my blood sugar, not rigid but very careful, and I feel good. Thanks for the piece of advice you wanted to share with us. I must admit that my heart breaks every time I pass by a pizza...

7 Feb 08

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Cashiers vulnerable to flu from banknotes

shakeroo @shakeroo (3986) • Malaysia 17 Jan 08

Do you know that germs live on bank notes and can give you the flu if you are exposed to a large quantity of the notes? "Our studies have convinced us that it is possible to catch flu from banknotes, but the chances are very,...

flu

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opinione I think that cashiers are not the most exposed working cathegory to such airborne infections as flu and so on. First of all because in general bank cashiers have got a protection glass between them and the customers, Second, and most important, because flu...

17 Jan 08

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If You Are Powerful You Don't Have To Speak A Word. Is This True?

sunshinelady @sunshinelady (7609) • United States 17 Jan 08

What comes to mind for me is actions speak louder than words. I believe this. Do You? You Are Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. -- Margaret Thatcher, British Prime...

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opinione In our language, which derives mainly from latin and greek, we have two words that can stress the concept: 1. 'signore' which means sir, or lord, but ethymologically means that he is one who just has to indicate, to point with is finger in order to obtain,...

17 Jan 08

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Do you really enjoy cooking?

anup12 @anup12 (4177) • India 10 Jan 08

Cooking is an art which one has to enjoy. You should not do it out of compulsion then you will never become a good cook.

cooking

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opinione I cook just for meal, and just to help my wife at home, but I like what she prepares, and sometimes (very rarely), what I myself do.

10 Jan 08

Grease is still one of the best movies that was adapted from a Broadway musical.

Steve West @zebra2222 (5268) • United States 25 Dec 07

Grease is still one of my favorite movies. I loved the music and the performances. It had style and energy. John Travolta was awesome. Olivia Newton John was perfect. There aren't too many broadway musicals that made it to the...

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opinione Yes, I think so. There are two musicals whose movies I like most, among my most favourite movies: this one and Jesus Christ Superstar. Of course the original ones, and not sequels or covers of any kind... good bye.

9 Jan 08

What do you think about Nokia phones?

lya1977 @lya1977 (24) • Italy 9 Jan 08

Nokia is my preferred cell brand: I've always had Nokia phones and I found them very modern and easy to use. And you, what do you think about Nokia?

nokia

phone

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opinione I like Nokia phones too. I've never bought any, although. So, why I like them: first. as a consumer I watch tv and other ads so I know just the things that they say, and this is a way to compare different brands you can't own all togheter... second. and...

9 Jan 08

What's your favorite children's book?

dianne17k @dianne17k (587) • Philippines 7 Jan 08

What's your favorite children's book/s? Mine would be "The Missing Piece" and the "Missing Piece Meets the Big O", both by Shel Silverstein, and McBratney's "Guess How Much I Love You". I was already an adult when I got to...

childrens books

childrens literature

guess how much i love you

shel silverstein

the missing piece

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opinione The wizard of Oz Lewis Carrol's Alice's saga Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels Not necessarily in this order, which depends on children's age: the first one is apt for any age, the last one is for more mature readers.

8 Jan 08

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Which CSI is You Favorite?

anniepa @anniepa (27955) • United States 14 Oct 07

OK, someone just asked this about the Law and Order shows and, who knows, someone probably asked this one at one time or another as well, but I didn't see it...lol...Anyway, which do you like best, original CSI, Miami, or New...

csi miami

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opinione I like better the one with Gary Sinise. I'm a fan of this actor and so... Apart from this I like them all.

8 Jan 08

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Another easy way to make money online...

lindsay20061987 @lindsay20061987 (1) • United States 6 Jan 08

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money online

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opinione I'm already a member too. I do agree with both of you. good bye and happy new year!

6 Jan 08

do you like fried or barbeque

marketing07 @marketing07 (6266) • South Korea 6 Jan 08

which one is your choice,i like barbeque how about you?

cooking

foods

learn to cook

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opinione We have not a garden, so barbeques are just occasional events we share with friends who own a countriside home with garden. But I like both fried and roasted meat. good bye and happy new year

6 Jan 08

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Strange science question

owatagoosiam @owatagoosiam (751) • United States 5 Jan 08

boiling point

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opinione From a chemical point of view the first thing you mentioned is a so called colligative property of solutions: if you add a solute (NaCl, the cooking or the rock salt) to a solvent (H2O, tap water) you are influencing the so called ebullioscopic delta... An...

6 Jan 08

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All the 300 spartans are look alike

santhosh14 @santhosh14 (42) • India 4 Jan 08

Hey just i surfed youtube, for this film trial, but i found the thing that how the 300 spartans are look alike, in olden days the spartans had a exercise formula if you follow such formula you can get the shape of the spartans,...

spartans

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opinione Interesting... 300, the movie was a very good thing, even if it is true that the 300 spartans looked rather as body building champs than aristocratic soldiers of a city-state belonging to iron age... Indeed, if you take a look to the movie you can see a...

4 Jan 08

Man falls from skyscraper!

shakeroo @shakeroo (3986) • Malaysia 4 Jan 08

A man who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper lives to tell the horror! " Doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now...

47 stories

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opinione No I did not, and I would accurately avoid it if I can... I remember the case of a sporting parachute champ who had deviced a new model of planating vest and had tried a launch from an airplane, free falling, without any real parachute, on some desert land:...

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Can't wait for this movie "IRON MAN"

glitzypurple @glitzypurple (1477) • Philippines 3 Jan 08

I've read in the Times magazine today that in 2008 the movie "Iron Man" will be released and included in there is Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, etc... I'm quite excited because I enjoy Marvel comics movies! And I really...

iron man

marvel

marvel comics

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opinione Interesting, quite interesting, as Mr Spock would say. I ignored the existence of such a project, and it is for me quite a surprise... I think that it will be a success! As it has been for the majority of the movies produced on the basis of Marvel (and...

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Mathematical puzzle

siddharthlife @siddharthlife (462) • India 1 Jan 08

Give me integers x,y,z such that x^3 + y^3 = z^3. Do think well before you answer! The solution may be trickier than it seems at a casual glance! All the best!

riddle

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opinione If I'm not wrong in what I've read, since I'm not a matematician, I can tell you that Fermat first supposed (and perhaps demonstrated, but just to himself...) that there was such a theorem on integers (the so called third Fermat's t.) that you can't have...

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merry christmas, but i am lonely……

taorufei @taorufei (38) • China 24 Dec 07

christmas is coming! but i am lonely. because i miss my girlfriend. she is busy with work now. work and love,which is more important? i don't know. god bless!

chiristmas

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opinione Merry Xmas! Be happy thinking to the moment of her coming back.

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Which came first, The chicken or the egg?

vaivhav @vaivhav (355) • India 25 Mar 07

I know you all are bored having responded this question a lot of times, but i would really like you all to reply again. According to me, there is a 50-50 chance for both.

life

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opinione First came... the kitchen, to boil them all. in order to make a tree you need the seed, in order to make the seed you need the tree... the sense of a search is in the fact you know that you don't know something and no more than this (Socrates) the...

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What life do you want?

jiangyifeifei @jiangyifeifei (42) • China 24 Dec 07

What life do want ?ANd what are your dreaming life ? come here , let's talk about it .

life

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opinione What life I want? The one I got... And how much of it? A big lot. good bye

24 Dec 07

do u you math games or puzzles or language/word games?

aniraaj @aniraaj (134) • United States 26 Mar 07

lot of my friends like playing games on the net. Maths games, some like words games, some like solving puzzles and answering quizzes. playing maths games are real fun. i personally like mathematics, i remember i used to score very...

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opinione Me too. bye.

1 Dec 07