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...broadcaster with a presence on the Internet. Starting Aug. 15, the U.S. government service will start offering news and regional reports in 15 languages, dramatically expanding an experimental English-language service begun in January. Among the offerings: round-the-clock, 10-minute newscasts in Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Arabic, Czech and Swahili -- digitized for net delivery, but capable of being decoded by most digital audio software.Post to New Media "The Internet...
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, facing tight budgets and possible shutdown since the end of the Cold War, may breathe easier thanks to Czech President Vaclav Havel. Last night, President Clinton accepted Havel's offer to house the broadcasters in the former Czechoslovakian parliament building in Prague -- rent-free. The stations, based in Munich for four decades, said the move would shore up their 1,500 employees' morale, but TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says few really want to leave their comfortable German surroundings. The Czechs, he adds, are only too happy to import a prestigious Western operation...
From the land of Pilsner comes an odd new export: dehydrated beer. Brewer Jan Oliva, who co-owns a malthouse in the Czech Republic town of Bruntal, says that when you add water to his beer powder and wait 10 days, you get a cool refreshment that "looks like beer, tastes like beer and has a head too ... It is beer, and a good one at that...
...that the subject of this somber book is the postmodern 'condition' would imply that the condition is now universal, perhaps even ingrained in human nature and society. This is empirically a falsehood, since, for the most part, Zulus and Czech window-washers do not fret over, let alone care, about postmodernism...
Wednesday: In an interview with a Czech newspaper, Zhirinovsky warned that Czechs "will be forced to ... clean the shoes of German officers" ... Thursday: Visiting St. Petersburg, he claimed to have rejected a $1 billion bribe from an Asian country to help it "get some islands." He also vowed that "barbarian peoples" in southern Russia would have their villages destroyed by napalm ... Sunday: He planned to take part in a vigorous 40-km (25-mile) cross-country skiing competition in Moscow...