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Jagr, the man the Great One himself hoped could continue the mission? The Czech native simply needs to learn more English before assuming the spotlight...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, | Title: Goodbye, Great One | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

Jagr, the man the Great One himself hoped could continue the mission? The Czech native simply needs to learn more English before assuming the spotlight...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: Goodbye, Great One | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

Consumers responded. Identigene's business has doubled in each of the past five years. This year the company expects to field 67,000 telephone inquiries and conduct 10,000 DNA tests, compared with 650 tests in 1995. It now has offices in Japan, Korea, Brazil and the Czech Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genes and Money | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...term psychoanalysis in 1896, when he was already 40. He had been driven by ambition from his earliest days and encouraged by his doting parents to think highly of himself. Born in 1856 to an impecunious Jewish family in the Moravian hamlet of Freiberg (now Pribor in the Czech Republic), he moved with the rest of a rapidly increasing brood to Vienna. He was his mother's firstborn, her "golden Siggie." In recognition of his brilliance, his parents privileged him over his siblings by giving him a room to himself, to study in peace. He did not disappoint them. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIGMUND FREUD: Psychoanalyst | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Kurt Godel was born in 1906 in Brunn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of the Czech Republic, to a father who owned a textile factory and had a fondness for logic and reason and a mother who believed in starting her son's education early. By age 10, Godel was studying math, religion and several languages. By 25 he had produced what many consider the most important result of 20th century mathematics: his famous "incompleteness theorem." Godel's astonishing and disorienting discovery, published in 1931, proved that nearly a century of effort by the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mathematician KURT GODEL | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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