Pisa

February 26, 1999

Underground excavation work has begun to try to reduce the tilt on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Michele Jamiolkowski, a geotechnics professor at Turin Polytechnic, is heading the expert team which includes John Burland, professor of soil engineering at Imperial College, London.

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