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...Czech Republic They became known as the "Cibulka lists" - some 200,000 names of alleged collaborators and officers of Czechoslovakia's communist-era secret police (StB) - named for Petr Cibulka, a former dissident turned free-lance StB hunter who published them a decade ago. Although the Czech government once forced Cibulka to stop posting them on his website, it's now putting its own version online. On March 20, the Czech Interior Ministry (www.mvcr.cz) will post names of some 100,000 alleged StB collaborators, as well as 9,000 organizations the communists spied on at home and abroad. An online...
...people have been going to Europe this year for spring break. I sent a bunch of people to Germany, the Czech Republic, France and some went to London...
DIED. VERA HRUBA RALSTON, 79, Czech-born Olympic skater and Ice Capades sweetheart who went on to a less stellar career in B movies during the 1940s and '50s (The Lady and the Monster; I, Jane Doe); of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. She added the name Ralston (from a breakfast cereal) because people stumbled over Hruba...
...Moeller electronics factories that straddle the Czech-Austrian border are virtually identical. Only 20 km apart, they employ the same number of people - about 1,100 each - and make the same components. But there is one striking difference: employees in the Czech factory in the town of Suchdol nad Luznuci spend more than twice as much time off sick as their Austrian counterparts in nearby Schrems. Is there something in the water? No. The problem is not health or the environment, according to Pavel Mracek, the Czech plant's personnel director. The problem is the government's absenteeism policy...
...times as many were receiving disability benefits. And "that's the end of the story," Stefan Tromel, director of the European Disability Forum, told the Financial Times. Other methods have been devised to address the problem in the short term - like attendance bonuses. At the Moeller plant in the Czech Republic, such bonuses have succeeded in reducing absenteeism even as the situation in the rest of the country deteriorates. But the idea leaves some observers incredulous. Says France's De Closets: "A reward for simply coming in and doing the job?" There's always the simplest motivator for people...