Word: czechs
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...Czech parliament approves plans to deploy a U.S. missile shield facility in the nearby hills, U.S. personnel are unlikely to be welcomed as the Red Army once was. The village that has yet to shake off its Brezhnev Village nickname is hardly ready to be dubbed Bush Town...
Every summer, journalists bug 87-year-old Jaroslav Ungr, former head of the socialist collective farm that once existed in the Czech village of Zajecov. When Soviet tanks rolled into what was then Czechoslovakia 39 years ago to put an end to the Prague Spring, the now white-haired man in a pink sweater and grey sweatpants was among those who welcomed the Red Army with open arms. But these days the journalists are asking not only about the Russians, but also about the Americans...
...bustle of excited chatting outside the packed church seeps inside where speakers, including former Czech President Vaclav Havel, take turns on stage...
Future Systems was founded in 1979 by Jan Kaplicky, a Czech émigré to Britain who fled Czechoslovakia 10 days after the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968. "I didn't have more time to live under a dictatorship," he says. As it would turn out, he also didn't have much interest in working under other name architects. After stints with Richard Rogers and then Norman Foster, both vanguard figures of British high tech, he decided to break out on his own. In 1989, Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years...
...Nordic-focused brands, more mainstream cosmetics companies have embraced the trend as well. Orlane uses arctic cranberry seed oil in Hypnotherapy, a product meant to fight the effects of stress-induced aging. And of course there's Fresh's Elixir Ancien, a face oil made by hand in a Czech monastery. Glazman says now that they have the technology down?the use of sea buckthorn oil in cosmetics requires its staining red color and noxious gasoline smell to be removed?Fresh plans to use the oil in more creams...