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...longer is a larger version of the local neighborhood. Increasingly, the players don't hail from the Great North. The best player in the game right now, Jaromir Jagr, hails from the Czech Republic. The hottest player in the league right now, Patrik Elias, is also from there...
Anyone familiar with the delights of what Czechs affectionately call liquid bread will not be surprised to learn that Czechs consume more beer per capita than any other nationality. In 1998 they quaffed around 170 qts. each, beating the Germans, who managed just 134 qts., into a poor second place. (Americans finished 13th, with 88 qts.) In a league of its own is the Czech Republic's most famous beer, Pilsner Urquell. The original bottom-fermented Pils, or lager, it was first brewed in the Bohemian city of Pilsen in 1842. "It's a Rolls-Royce among beers," purrs Pilsner...
...look who's behind the wheel now. The new owner of the world's most admired beer is South African Breweries, which last October bought a controlling interest in Pilsner Urquell and Radegast, the Czech Republic's two top brewers, from investment bank Nomura International in a $321 million deal. With it, SAB got the right to acquire Nomura's remaining stake by June 30, 2001, for $308 million. That makes SAB Central Europe's biggest brewer and vaults it into third spot worldwide, after Anheuser-Busch of the U.S. and Heineken of the Netherlands...
Where can you go on such house-swap tours? Almost anywhere. The larger services offer as many as 11,000 listings, including just about every state in the U.S. and 30 or more countries, from Australia and the Czech Republic to Indonesia and South Africa. If you live in such popular U.S. tourist spots as Los Angeles, New York City or Miami, you may find yourself deluged with fabulous offers: a condo on the beach in Barcelona, a castlelike "cottage" in Burgundy. Sometimes the accommodations are more modest than what you're offering in exchange. But timing and location...
...mentor at Denver was the Czech refugee Josef Korbel, Madeleine Albright's father. This coincidence serves to highlight her differences with Albright, who has become the foremost proponent of an ideal-driven foreign policy. While Rice says that in foreign policy "America's values are extremely important," she hews closer to the tradition of Korbel and other realists, such as Hans Morgenthau, who place greater weight on defending strategic interests and tending to the balance of power...