SEBASTIANO ("NELLO") MUSUMECI, the governor of Sicily, counts off on his fingers some of the many things he says his island lacks: a hub-port to tap into the goods traffic that flows from the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean; an international airport ("Malta, smaller than the smallest Sicilian province, has one," he notes indignantly); a modern rail system (large stretches of the existing network are either single-track or unelectrified, or both); and a motorway that fully encircles the triangular island (there is a long gap on one side). "Then there is all the social infrastructure we lack," he goes on. Top of that list is a shortage of nursery schools.
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