Naples Journal: In Mire of Politics and the Mafia, Garbage Reigns
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For a dozen years, Naples and surrounding towns have periodically choked on their refuse, but the last two weeks have flared into a real crisis.
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A new Italian white wine has become a  symbol of the fight against organized crime, incurring the  wrath of gangsters from Naples because it was produced from  grapes grown on land confiscated from a Mafia godfather.
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ATHENS -- Since the Greek capital's only landfill reached saturation a month ago, Athens has been in the grip of a garbage crisis.
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A new Italian white wine has become a symbol of the fight against organized crime, incurring the wrath of gangsters from Naples because it was produced from grapes grown on land confiscated from a Mafia godfather.
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Piles of trash building up in Naples  have filled the air with a putrid stench and spoiled the view  for tourists, but the city's waste crisis may also be killing  its people.
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Yet this summer, as every summer, tales of water shortages are leaking out up and down the Italian peninsula as people talk of badly maintained reservoirs, faulty distribution networks, high tourist demand and ...
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By Jeffrey B. Cohen, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 7--For now at least, all that stands between a new sex shop and Hartford's South Meadows is, well, trash.
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Rudy Giuliani clearly has a love/hate thing when it comes to the Mafia: celebrates the fictional characters, incarcerates the felonious ones, keeps mum about those in his own family tree.
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A statewide political feud has the public aghast, even as it slurps up every detail of a dynasty in dysfunction.
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The Italian army battles against huge piles of rubbish clogging the streets of Naples.
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The BBC's Tamsin Smith joins anti-Mafia police on a raid in a Naples suburb at the heart of a vicious turf war.
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Emerging rival mafia clans are locked in a murderous power struggle for control of the drugs market.
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By Ken Ward Jr.  kward@wvgazette.com  More than 15 years after lawmakers fought the "Garbage Wars," another battle is brewing at the state Capitol over West Virginia's solid-waste laws.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - When residents smelled a foul odor coming from a nearby home, they thought it was a meth lab and called firefighters. But firefighters entered the house only to find it full of garbage, authorities said.
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A mayor whose administration is under federal investigation. An alderman who just got hit with a federal bribery charge. Four politicians who served time for corruption and want their old jobs back.
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The rubbish littering the streets of Naples is symptomatic of a deeper problem at the heart of Italian politics, says the BBC's David Willey.
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Turkey, deer and songbirds abound in a pastoral setting in Roanoke County, but under the surface lies the volatile legacy of an old landfill: explosive gases and contaminated fluids.  The mixture will require daily maintenance for decades and cost taxpayers millions, officials say.