Wednesday July 17, 2013

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New Scientist ‏@newscientist
Chromosome that causes Down's syndrome silenced for first time, raising hope that symptoms could be reversed http://ow.ly/n44Af

***In January 1932, the widow Luigia Barbarovich Paulovich of Trieste won an unusual legal victory. For the past eighteen months, she had officially been known as Luigia Paoli, a name imposed on her by Fascist legislation aimed at "Italianizing" the inhabitants of the northeastern borderlands. Despite the regime's aggressive efforts to nationalize this population acquired after World War I, the widow Paulovich prevailed in her efforts to retain her husband's seemingly "foreign" or "Slavic" surname--a seemingly uncharacteristic instance of "administrative tolerance" and legalism by an authoritarian dictatorship (p. 2). The Paulovich case was never publicized at the time, and has remained obscure for decades....
Citation: Joshua Arthurs. Review of Hametz, Maura, _In the Name of Italy: Nation, Family, and Patriotism in a Fascist Court_. H-Italy, H-Net Reviews. July, 2013.
URL: www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37084