Historic flooding highlights Venice’s vulnerability

    VENICE, Italy --- The historic lagoon city of Venice exists on the edge of a double threat: As it sinks, the seas rise.   That reality became more stark this week when Venice was hit with its worst flood in over 50 years, caused by a nearly 1.9 meter (6-foot) tide that sent waist-high water flowing through St. Mark's Square, cast the city's world-famous gondolas onto walkways, and threatened its medieval, Baroque and Renaissance art and architecture.   Damage to the City of Canals from the second-worst flood ever recorded was put at hundreds of millions of euros (dollars).   Against the backdrop of the disaster, a corruption-riddle...

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