Word: czechs
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...chief complaint is no candidate country is represented in the powerful 12-member Presidium, which sets the Convention's agenda. Jan Kavan, the Czech Foreign Minister and a Convention delegate, will submit a written proposal this week to add two candidate-country representatives. "That would reassure the candidate countries that the slogan, 'We're all equal,' is serious," he said...
...Prague, a different kind of convenience store has mushroomed. Specializing in the resale of mobile phones, these outlets offer not only 24-hour service, but inviting price tags, with the bulk of their handsets in the $100 range. Police believe most of the phones are stolen, but complicated Czech proof-of-ownership laws render them almost powerless to prosecute. And in a country where almost 11,000 cell phones were reported stolen in the first eight months of last year, the police seem equally helpless to prevent the crimes. "How can you stop the theft of something that...
...measures are ineffective, because criminals with access to the right software can hack into stolen phones and change the serial number, possibly to duplicate a legitimate IMEI. Block-ing stolen IMEIs looks "like a nice gesture towards the customers, but has no real impact," says Petr Stoklasa of the Czech Republic's RadioMobil. He says RadioMobil will embrace IMEI-based measures once manufacturers come up with serial numbers that can't be altered. Handset makers counter that in the latest phones, the chips containing the IMEIs are much less hackable. They are also experimenting with iris and fingerprint identification technology...
...weather was right - no snow and not much wind - and so freestyle aerial skier Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic decided to try a quintuple twist with a triple back-flip. No one had ever attempted?much less landed?a five twist jump in the Olympics. For Valenta it was a maneuver he had completed perfectly only twice in practice. But he was trailing defending Olympic champion Eric Bergoust of the U.S. and three others after the first round of jumps. Valenta needed something spectacular to win. Indeed, the five-twist jump he executed was spectacular. Also decisive. He took...
...prime time along with the traditional favorite, women's figure skating, is a perfect example of the rising (literally) popularity of extreme events. And what theater, with American Eric Bergoust, "Air Bergie," flaming out in an all or nothing leap for first place. The gold went to the Czech Republic's daring Ales Valenta, who wowed the crowds at the Deer Valley venue with a jump that had five twists...