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...Czech Village gathering, which drew a handful of neighbors, is among several commemorations being held this month in Cedar Rapids and across eastern Iowa to mark the one-year anniversary of flooding that deluged cities large and small, upending many lives and causing an estimated $10 billion worth of damage ($6 billion in Cedar Rapids alone). Eighty-eight of Iowa's 99 counties were declared a natural disaster area as a result of last year's flooding and two deadly tornadoes. While progress has been made to recover from Iowa's worst disaster, many frustrated homeowners still await government help...
...Czech Village last weekend, the mood was subdued. A hog roast to mark the anniversary, held in the still recovering one-block historic shopping district, was sparsely attended by midafternoon and dominated by the accordion of a three-piece band. "We have to celebrate how far we've come, but we have a long way to go," says Gail Naughton, CEO of the nearby National Czech and Slovak Museum, which sponsored the roast. The museum was shuttered by the flood, but officials hope to rebuild. "People here are resilient, they're hardworking and they'll do what they need...
...Dropping only 26% from its first weekend, The Hangover hit the $100 million mark in domestic gross in only eight days, out-sprinting last year's Sex and the City by a day. What happens in Vegas, apparently, goes everywhere fast. And here's one more stat that should tickle the bosses at Warner Bros.: The Hangover's budget was about $35 million - less than a fifth of the Pixar film...
...murder flickers on a laptop screen as Bremner points out what she deems critical flaws in the collection of evidence. After placing rulers on the sides of a bloody shoeprint, for example, a blue-rubber-gloved hand reaches down with a piece of white cloth and scrubs the bloody mark off the tile floor before putting the cloth into an evidence tube. This happens three times for three separate footprints. In film footage taken at least a day later, another team of investigators attempts, using photographs, to place where the footprints had been. "They should have lifted the tile," Bremner...
...Fergal Sharkey, CEO of U.K. Music, an organization representing the interests of the commercial music industry (and a former pop singer himself), reckons that the success of the anti-copyright movement among young voters "sends a message that we need to think about how we are approaching the issue." Mark Mulligan, an analyst at technology-research company Forrester, agrees. "The problem with looking to legislation to help meet business ends is that the results are often unfavorable to all affected business parties," he says. "Legislation simply cannot move quickly enough to keep up with the evolution of peer-to-peer...