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Before the North American rivals get to that matchup, there will be four other Dream Teams to get through--Sweden, Russia, the Czech Republic and Finland--none of which will roll over. The "Big Sheet," the offense-friendly, Olympic-size playing surface that is 13 1/2 ft. wider than the NHL's, will help the smaller, speedier European teams, as should the stiff penalties against fighting. The Swedes took advantage of this in their first game, swirling around the Americans and winning 4-2. And because a hot goaltender can control a short series, the Czechs could take gold because...
...mosquitoes and black flies responsible for transmitting malaria and African river blindness. Although no definitive studies on resistant strains of head lice have been completed in the U.S. (results of a Harvard investigation won't be ready for several months), two recent papers from Israel and the Czech Republic seem to support the resistant-strain theory. Says Thomas Bell, health officer for three counties in Washington State: "How do you induce resistance among a population of insects, bacteria or whatever? You expose the population to a sublethal dose of the chemical you're trying to kill them with, and that...
...cultures blur into each other: Luxembourg, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra are each different but by the end of the book seem remarkably similar and indistinguishable. After hearing about the Brittons, Sorbs, Wends and Karaim, it becomes difficult to remember which, exactly, was the hea-then tribes near the Czech border of Germany and which were the radical splinter-group that broke off from Judaism in the eighth century...
...Czech history is full of political polymaths--the nation's first president, T.G. Masaryk, was trained as a philosopher, while Vaclav Havel was well-known as a dissident playwright long before he ever took office. Miroslav Holub, a Czech poet and well-respected immunologist, is no exception to this tradition. His latest collection of essays, Shedding Life, investigates topics as disparate as animal experimentation, opera and civic engagement. Beneath the surface of these lapidary essays is a compelling political message, a crie-de-coeur against totalitarianism from a scientist who has witnessed ideology's perversion of the truth...
...What Links Me With Ladislaus the Posthumous," Holub humorously recounts his successful attempt to pass his medical exams by flattering his examiners' egos. The cause of the death of King Ladislaus, an obscure fifteenth-century Czech monarch, is an unsolved mystery with political implications: a patriotic Czech is expected to agree with his nation's medical historians about the cause of Ladislaus' death (though no one is in agreement), rather than with the account of rival German historians. When Holub is quizzed on medical minutiae by his professors, he offhandedly conjectures that Ladislaus died from whatever ailment his examiner happens...