I think it does the opposite, The author wanted to send a structured document without presentation, with your tool of liking (I used Firefox's reader view) you can read comfortably without compromising the content of the article or it's features.
edit: I could have used curl, an html processor and a pager like less or more
The big difference is that a country in Europe has his own economy completely detached from the rest of the EU while in the US the federal state will provide money coverage for the basic state services and absorbs economic shocks distributing it on the whole country.
The most important feature is chaining and lazy evaluation.
I think the most useful functions are the typechecking utilities (typeof in javascript is the most useless keyword the human kind engineered in a language).
In the end is a very nice library to work with when it does not get in the way (of course, if you are using `_.each([], fn)`, you should think again and use `Array#forEach` or a nice `for`)
I can assure you, corruption is the least of our problems in our country.
As stated by gruturo the real problems are taxes, inadequate laws, infrastructure (for example cable connection is scarce even in the bigger cities) and finally economic issues.
I was born in Italy and I love my country, but I had to move to a different country to be able to work and being payed for my work.
I don't really know why they are pushing IE10 since it's not even out yet (unless someone is sponsoring them). By the way the small demos are working in chrome, quite slowly but working