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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...
...GULF Czech Mates If U.S. troops go into battle in Iraq, they will be grateful for a small force of Czechs behind them. Why? Because the Czechs are experts in detecting and defending against chemical and biological attacks, skills picked up during the cold war. But the biggest dangers might not come from missiles bearing nerve agent or VX gas. "Saddam may use nonmilitary chemicals and rig up booby traps that detonate when you open a door or step on something," says Lieut. Colonel Ivo Musil, chief of operations for around 390 Kuwait-based Czech soldiers, part of a "consequence...
DIED. KAREL REISZ, 76, Czech-born pioneer of the 1960s British New Wave, whose influential films of the period included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Morgan!; of a blood disorder; in London. He also directed the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of John Fowles' novel The French Lieutenant's Woman...