So Monday night I boarded an 8 PM Amtrak (the Texas Eagle route) which runs from Chicago all the way to L.A. First time on a train.

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The Apennines, the belt of mountains that runs down through the centre of Italy, is riddled with faults, and the "Eagle" city of L'Aquila has been hammered time and time again by earthquakes.

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