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Five centuries after the first foreigners arrived, Bombay is once again attracting fortune seekers from far away. Yana Gupta's journey began in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1988 when she was 9 and her mother Dedenka stitched money and jewelry into her two daughters' clothes and took them on vacation to Croatia. "On the bus on the way back to Czechoslovakia," remembers Gupta, "we got down somewhere and went into some forest. The idea was to get to Germany. But the border guards caught us." The next year, Vaclav Havel led Czechoslovakia's revolution. But Gupta's mother had sown...
...ranked Russian. She?s the feature attraction at the evening session. No, it?s 16-year-old Nicole Vaidisova, another one of those Eastern European wonder women. A Czech, she?s just short of six feet tall with legs that go from Prague to Brno and the power to hit the ball just as far. This kid can smash it. She?s seeded 26th in Queens, but she reached the 3rd round in Wimbledon. Her path was made a little easier when defending champion Svetlana Kuznetsova got chopped down on the big stage by Ekaterina Bychkova. This is a tough...
...Basque region. Not So Dirty, After All CZECH REPUBLIC Officials announced that contrary to earlier reports, radioactive material seized in a police sting was not weapons-grade, nor was it suitable for making a dirty bomb. Two Slovaks were arrested on Nov. 14 in the eastern city of Brno after allegedly trying to sell to an undercover agent 3 kg of what appeared to be nuclear fuel rods from the former Soviet Union for 5600,000. The seizure, one of the largest in the world this year, rekindled fears of a terrorist market for this kind of material. All Polled...
...Iraq, bullying and drug use in Czech schools. But the effect of his actions has been unmistakable. In the past seven weeks, five more people in the Czech Republic have set themselves ablaze, and three have died: Vera Jedlicková, 50, burned herself near her family plot at Brno's central cemetery on March 18, the day she checked out of a psychiatric ward where she had been treated for depression. Roman Másl, a 21-year-old student, immolated himself in Pilsen on April 1. Pavel Janícek, 42, unemployed, with a history of mental illness...
...play movie producer. Which of these film treatments would get your green light? <BRNo. 1: Don't Mess with Pinocchio. A little wooden boy is led astray by his own greed and naiveté. Born poor and with a bad attitude, his first act is to stick his tongue out at the world, and the price he pays is shocking: his nose grows with every lie, his feet are burned off, he is chained like a dog and even hanged. But the boy sure can dish it out: when a moralizing cricket gets in his face, boy squashes...