(1) N.Y. MUSEUM PAYS HOMAGE TO ITALIAN ACTRESS ANNA 
     MAGNANI
(2) ITALIAN RESEARCHERS DISCOVER PROTEIN INHIBITS TUMORS
(3) STREETWISE BEGGAR GIRL SUPPORTS EUROPEAN UNION
        This one is worth a Chuckle!!!
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(1)NEW YORK MUSEUM PAYS HOMAGE TO ITALIAN ACTRESS ANNA
MAGNANI
The Film department of New York's Museum of Modern Art will present an 
important retrospective, honoring Italian film-and stage actress Anna Magnani 
(1903-1973). From January 17 to 31, the museum will present 14 films 
featuring the popular actress who acted in many of Italy's postwar 
Neorealistic films. The program was curated by the Department of Cinema of 
Rome's Cinecitta' Museum. The restrospective will start with "Bellisssima," 
Luchino Visconti's 1951 critical portrait of commercial filmmaking, followed 
by Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Mamma Roma," from 1962. The program will conclude 
with Ms. Magnani's debut film from 1934,  "La Cieca di Sorrento" (The Blind 
Woman From Sorrento).
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(2) ITALIAN RESEARCHERS DISCOVER PROTEIN WHICH REGULATES 
TUMOR GROWTH
Silvia Sodu and Ada Sacchi, two researchers from the Regina Elena Institute 
in Rome, discovered a naturally-occuring protein that is capable of 
regulating the p53 protein which had already been documented. This protein is 
capable of switching on various sets of genes in a well-known mechanism that 
forces cells to destroy themselves rather than become cancerous. The two 
molecular biologists named their new discovery the HIPK2 protein. Their 
findings will be published in the upcoming issue of "Nature", in the Cancer 
and Cell Biology Review section.
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(3) STREETWISE BEGGAR GIRL SUPPORTS EUROPEAN UNION

In an icy cold wind that penetrated to the bone, a little girl, thought to be 
no more than a few years old, stood begging for change at the entrance of a 
cemetery. Most passersby were inclined to toss a few coins in the girl's 
extended hand. But when an elderly woman from Costa Masnaga, in the Lecce 
district of the Puglia region, stopped to give her several coins that she 
retrieved from her coat pocket, the little girl snapped, "No lire, I only 
accept euro."