The devices are the first instruments of their type in Italy devoted to anthropological research.

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But, as in Italy, a new type of magistrate has done much to put French politicians and public figures on the spot.

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Il Palio is one of very few surviving medieval spectacles of its type in Italy, enduring thanks to the sheer tenacity of Sienese traditionalism.

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Italy could see the same type of government in place next week following votes on austerity packages.

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The leaders of France, Germany, Britain and Italy pledged to work together to halt the financial crisis and a Lehman Brothers-type bankruptcy in Europe.

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And one of the principal subjects of that conversation was the effort that President Napolitano was undertaking to help forge the type of Italian response and the type of Italian government that could project the confidence necessary to deal with the challenges in Italy and the eurozone.

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They are thought to be of a type that has been in circulation for a decade, with specimens turning up mostly in Spain, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria and Portugal.

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