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...Century," launched last week in Vienna, will exhibit on the Internet as many as 1,000 interviews with elderly survivors (Judit Kinszki among them), along with 100,000 never-before-published family photographs. Also this month, and also on the Internet, an actor and part-time researcher in the Czech Republic will begin posting the results of his unusual labors - recording the inscriptions on ancient Jewish tombstones (see accompanying story). And in Poland, plans are afoot to build a new museum that will recreate homes, streets and whole villages representing 800 years of Jewish life. The museum will be constructed...
...hawks point to another piece of circumstantial evidence. Since last fall the U.S. has tried to confirm a Czech intelligence report that in April 2001, 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague. Both the CIA and FBI have disputed the report. Their research places Atta in Florida two days before the purported meeting, and they could not uncover any travel or financial records to prove Atta had made a quick flight to Prague. But early this month several Pentagon officials, including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, met with the FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism...
...torrential rains, floods from the Black Sea to the Baltic took roughly 100 lives, left thousands homeless and caused billions of dollars' worth of damage to the farms, cities and hamlets of Central and Eastern Europe. Prague looked like a city under siege. Military rescue vehicles rumbled down the Czech capital's flooded streets, in which soldiers, firemen and volunteers labored to rescue stranded citizens and keep the Vltava River, which winds through the city, from destroying architectural treasures. They succeeded, but only partly. The barriers they erected saved the famous Old Town, but the river broke through the opposite...
...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...