the architectural style throughout is pisa's very own pisan romanesque. where traditional romanesque has a heavy, fortress feel, pisan romanesque is light and elegant. the buildings, with their tight rows of thin columns, geometric designs, and striped colored marble, give the campo a striking unity. the 200-foot-tall bell tower is famous because it leans about 15 feet. the tower started to lean almost immediately after construction began. various architects tried to correct the problem of the leaning by straightening up the top section. the tower tilted a little more each year, and was in danger of actually falling over. over the centuries, they tried every trick imaginable to stop the tilt. finally, they figured it out, stabilized the tower, and in 2001, the leaning tower of pisa was reopened to the climbing public. climbing to the top is an unforgettable experience, offering great views of the city, the square, and its dramatic duomo. pisa's huge and richly decorated duomo, or cathedral, is artistically more important than its more famous bell tower. i

and the royal bank of scotland may never be recovered the report from and pisa says the british taxpayer have already lost two billion keeping another financial institution afloat sara firth's reports. this is all focused around the public accounts committee investigation into the sale of northern rock that was the bank that if you close your mind a couple of years back was one of the first to get the big banking bailout is estimated that for northern rock for taxpayers a set of these around two hundred billion but that's not the worst of it because of yes and lloyds bank oh also had a lot of typos money funded into those bailouts and the taxpayers could be set to release a staggering sixty six billion pounds on that is very very hard to wrap your head around those figures so we're going to try and compare it really the amount that was put into those bailouts to what we have in the moment spending on social welfare such as pensions education health care and defense these figures coming at a time when everyone here is struggling in a daily we're talking to people who are really struggling

in italy, groundwater withdrawal has caused the lean in the tower of pisa and contributes to continued flooding in the canal city of venice. sometimes, groundwater withdrawal can cause the ground to collapse like sand going through the neck of an hourglass, resulting in sinkholes like these. in other regions, the surface of the earth is torn by giant cracks. in coastal regions, the excessive withdrawal of groundwater can cause other problems in addition to subsidence. beneath land, groundwater is fresh, but underneath the sea floor, it is salty. since fresh water is less dense than sea water, fresh groundwater just inland from the coast will tend to float on top of a salt water base. if fresh water is pumped out faster than it can be naturally replenished, sea water will flow in to replace it. as a result, the well water becomes increasingly salty, making it useless for drinking and poisonous for irrigation. other groundwater pollution problems also exist, involving contamination from many sources such as factories, farms, septic tanks, garbage dumps, and less often, radioactive waste

h.r. 6429 takes the bipartisan visa created more than 10 years ago and amends to to deny b pisa shoulders development to work and cuts out spouses and minor children living in the u.s. this backhanded so-called family fix should offend anyone who truly cares about families. but the family provisions are worse than that. families of stem visa holders are treated fairly, but the families of ordinary green card holders are treated as second class. if you are a stem degree holder, your spouse and minor children can immediately come to the united states and your spouse is granted a work permit. my colleagues on the other side of the aisle know this. however, if you are an ordinary green cardholder who applies to bring your spouse and children to the united states through our regular family immigration channels, you will make your spouse and children wait at least a year before joining you in the u.s., and we will not allow your spouse to work once he or she gets here. i agree that the stem holders should be able to bring their families, their children, and their wives or husbands and that thei

. >> one of the things that's going to be valuable is this research being done taking the oecd pisa test and bringing it down not just at a national level but to the high school level, literally, so if you're in suburban d.c., you think, oh, my gosh, our schools are so good, this is a problem of the urban core. as a mom or dad, you don't worry about it as much because you think your schools are ok. when you compare fancy pants high schools, no disrespect to bufrle suburban washington, d.c., the financial capital and real estate capital of the united states now, no unemployment, high income, everything is great. if you compare those students and those schools to comparable schools in stockholm or helsinki or paris or korea, and you start pointing out that no, we're not as good, it will create a sense of maybe shaking the complacency, which i think is the first step. there is a complacency here that people -- opinion leaders and people that have more disproportionate influence, don't view their own kids' plight as bad at all. and we need to create some awareness, i think, as john said, thr