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...burst of gunfire. The army said it was trying to prevent deaths by having M'khisan warn any civilians who might have been inside. But the Israeli human-rights group B'tselem said he was used as a shield. GERMANY Inundated Cities As floodwaters receded in Austria and the Czech Republic, they rose in Germany. The Elbe River reached a historic high, sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes in the southeastern German city of Dresden. While emergency services concentrated on evacuating residents from the danger zone, authorities also worked furiously to minimize damage at the city's historic...
...wondering why it was happening now. Last week's weather doesn't fit the pattern suggested by global warming, which predicts wetter winters and drier summers as temperatures rise. "You won't hear me say it's a sign of global warming," says Vaclav Baca of Povodi Vltavy, the Czech state company that manages waterworks on the Vltava. "It simply rained a lot." Others are not so sure. If climate change is taking place, then researchers would expect more frequent bouts of unexpected and severe storms - and last week's deluge might be an example of this...
EUROPE Storms Deal Out Death and Destruction L ethal summer storms lashed a swath of countries from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. The Italian government declared a state of emergency in northern Italy following violent downpours that devastated beaches, farms and vineyards. In the Czech Republic, rivers burst their banks, killing two people and forcing the evacuation of 2,000. Rising waters also isolated several Austrian towns and washed away bridges. In Romania two people drowned in flood waters. But worst hit was Russia, where 18 holidaymakers were found dead on the Black Sea coast after flashfloods destroyed their...
Little Village and Pilsen used to be Czechoslovakian, Polish and German ethnic enclaves, closely tied to a junction of railways that engulfed the Near West Side. The early Czech settlers in Little Village honored the Old Country by naming the church Blessed Agnes of Bohemia. Now, the church serves the largest concentration of people of Mexican-descent in the Midwest. I doubt that many parishioners or congregants wonder about the church’s remote name. As more Mexicans arrive and are born in Chicago (Latinos now compromise about 25 percent of the city’s total three million...
...grasped an irony in my description “absolutely nothing.” It was indeed close to nothing weighed against Anna’s internship, whose recently received postcard detailed her government work in Madrid. It was nothing next to Janie’s travels in the Czech Republic. It was even near nothing when matched to my friends’ experiences here in the States. With New York, D.C. and even the western United States as playgrounds, most people I knew had their own exciting tale—intriguing lab experiments, work with some prestigious community service...