Quake risk body chief quits over L'Aquila verdict
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Quake risk body chief quits over L'Aquila verdict

Rome : Italy | Oct 23, 2012 at 7:22 AM PDT
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Physicist Luciano Maiani on Tuesday resigned as president of Italy's principal natural-disaster risk-assessment body in the wake of the conviction of seven top-level scientists and public officials for manslaughter in connection with the April 2009 earthquake that shook the Abruzzo town of L'Aquila... FULL ARTICLE AT Ansa
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