Planes are flying over the scene, dropping water over the fire and still big plumes of smoke are hundreds of meters in the air ... tons of ambulances, firefighters.

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Monday's announcement by the board of Alitalia that it was accepting a bid by Air France-KLM provoked howls of outrage from politicians and union leaders over the fire sale price being offered, as well as the impact the sale would have on the economy of Milan, the Italian capital of business.

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That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

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