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The Žižkov TV tower in Prague is rated the second ugliest construction in
the world! Why do ČSA planes have two different logos? And, a bishop gets
booed as he blesses a “stolen” statue. Find out more in Magazine with
Daniela Lazarová.
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Current AffairsThe library can be sexy too, say naked students
The concept of the library needs some spicing up, it seems. Too drab, too
grey, too asexual, say student bookworms at Brno’s Masaryk University. So
how to improve the situation? How about taking off the librarian’s
clothes? Guerrilla Readers, an association whose primary aim is to promote
reading, has printed a calendar to give some sex appeal to libraries in
2010.
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It’s the thief’s turn to cook dinner! Why are so many tourists spending
hours in a certain public toilet. And, how many men in the Czech Republic
can say they are Vaclav Havel? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova.
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The Irish singer Glen Hansard and Czech musician Markéta Irglová, who won
an Oscar this year for best original song with their composition Falling
Slowly will make an appearance in The Simpsons. Twelve women from a small
Czech town find inspiration in the movie Calendar Girls. And, the
Napoleonic Society plans to pay tribute to the horses that were killed in
Battle of Austerlitz. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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In Mailbox this week: a Czech version of "O Holy Night", Ema
Destinnova's whereabouts in 1929, Czech women's family names, Jiri Sulc's
new novel. Listeners quoted: Jay Ham, Vernon Snyder, John Searight, Stephen
Hrebenach, Steve Sherdley.
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Cool Keg - the cool way to drink beer. Czechs are now buying beer by the
barrel. The employees of a Czech advertising agency bare all in aid of
charity and, two young Czechs take a bike ride across Mongolia. Find out
more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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This week, find out why the Czech Republic is a marbles
"superpower", a country where male fish are helpless against
female contraception pills, and a place where mobile phone software
manufacturers can sell products that violate the law. This and more in
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Current AffairsPrison Service criticised for prison calendar featuring female silhouettes
Last year the Czech Prison Service decided to commission a calendar for
2007 that would be just "a little bit different", a calendar
featuring shapely female silhouettes - mostly anonymous arms and legs -
behind bars. Now, two months into the new year, the finished product has
come under fairly heavy fire, with critics in the media questioning the
calendar's appropriateness and overall worth. More
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In Magazine this week: the Czech Republic's spy chief appears at a public
ceremony in an unusual "disguise"; the statistics for executions
between 1918 and 1989 have been compiled in a new publication; the museum
of records and curiosities in the Bohemian town of Pelhrimov has reported
a rather curious theft; a new form of transport is soon to hit the streets
of Prague; and what do you think are the most common Czech names?
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