First Divorce Trade Fair in Italy

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Elisabetta Povoledo, Businesses Come Together for When Marriages Come Apart.
New York Times, May 10, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/europe/10milan.html?scp=1&sq=amore%20ciao&st=cse

Excerpt in the window of the print: A trade fair made for a society that is
in transition.

(1) Quote:

"In 2007, according to the most recent statistics available, there were more
than 81,000 separations and 50,000 divorces among Italy’s population of 59
million. Thirty years ago, divorces did not break the 12,000 mark.

An Italian woman says,“We’ve turned into America. Everyone is on their
second marriage. It happened later here, but it happened.” But "n Italy,
divorces take around five years from the first separation hearing."

(2) Note:
(a) scrum (n; short for scrummage): "1: a rugby play in which the forwards
of each side come together in a tight formation and struggle to gain
possession of the ball using their feet when it is tossed in among them  b:
a usually brief and disorderly struggle or fight"
(b) Italy has population of 580 million for the past decade.
(c) The noun "amore" is Italian for "love."
(d) Trieste
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste
(a seaport in northeastern Italy)
(e) The report quotes a Slovenian official as saying we are "the only
country that has love in its name."

That is because the four-letter "love" is part of the spelling of the
country.

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